Marco Salvatore Mallamaci

MARCO SALVATORE MALLAMACIBiographical Notesby Sabrina FalzoneBorn in Magna Graecia in 1948, the internationally recognised artist Marco Salvatore Mallamaci is of aristocratic Greek lineage that can be traced, precisely, back to the very foundation of Magna Graecia.
An artist, collector and official of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1979, Marco is a multifaceted character who surprises everyone he meets. He mostly lives abroad and is currently living in Asia.
He has travelled widely through Asia, Africa, America and Europe. These journeys have left indelible traces on his path in life, significantly enriching the cultural, ethnic, political and professional experiences which now represent the foundation of his inner wealth, the well from which he draws his inexhaustible creativity. It is not by chance that the self-taught artist’s corpus of pictorial works has a distinctly cosmopolitan feel: he can, to all intents and purposes, be defined a "citizen of the World."

In 1968 he emigrated to Canada, where he obtained his degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Windsor.
Marco began painting in the early 1980s, having moved from Rome to Namur in Belgium. Under the influence of Eugenio Barra...

The Hon. Bai Yuzhang (art critic, painter and art dealer) is among those who most love Marco's works, together with the Hon. Qin Bialan, herself an internationally famous artist.
2005 was also the year that Marco returned to his home country and to Rome, only to discover that his phenomenal success in China had spilled over into Europe. Regularly invited to exhibit his work at both public and private institutions, he enjoyed favourable reviews from well-known art historians and critics from both Italy and abroad. In one review by the famous art critic and historian Sabrina Falzone, Marco was described as "the forerunner of a Neo-Existentialist symbolism for the 21st century”.
In October 2007, Peter Russu, the director of "Art Addiction" and editor of "World of Art Magazine", both London-based publications, showed particular interest in a publication on MASTERS, focused on Marco. In November 2007 he took part in “Impressions of the East", the International Art Exhibition held in the impressive Palazzo Spinola di San Luca (also known as the Palazzo Ratto-Picasso) in Genoa. The following month, as a guest of the Scientific Committee, Marco appeared (for the first and last time) at the sixth edition of the International Biennale of C...

Group shows


The 6th Beijing International Art Exposition, Beijing, China (1 – 5 Oct 2003);
The 8th Guangzhou International Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China (16-20 Dec 2003);
The 11th China Art Exhibition, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China (15-21 Sep 2004);
The 7th Beijing International Art Exhibition, Beijing, China (1-5 Oct 2004);
The 9th Guangzhou International Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China (16-20 Dec 2004);
The 2nd Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China (20 Sep – 20 Oct 2005);
Impressions of the East, Ars Habitat, Genoa, Italy (17-30 Nov 2007);
The 6th Florence International Art Biennale, Italy (1-9 Dec 2007);
The 4th Ferrara International Art Biennale, Italy – Special Guest (24 Oct – 2 Nov 2008;
The 14th Guangzhou International Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China (10-14 Dec 2009);
The 2nd Palermo International Art Biennale, Palermo, Italy (11-25 January 2015);
Bramante Hall in Rome: “Piazza del Popolo – from Caravaggio up to now” (19-30 May 2015).


Solo exhibitions

Museum of the Americas, Doral/Miami, USA (12 Jun – 4 Jul 2009);
Latino Art Museum, Pomona, California, USA (5 29 Ago 2009).