Mary Cinque
Mary Cinque
London, United Kingdom
About Mary Cinque
It's hard for me to talk about my work, art is communication, otherwise I could make a painting and then destroy it. But I am not like this because my need, the will of Art is to be open to other peoples mind. Thats communication. Communication is not Either you understand my art or you dont, communication is correspondence, empathy, stimulus, things that make the world go round. I think people need Art, they need to do art and to see works of art. We are living in a world obsessed by money and speed and we forgot what we really need to feel better. In my opinion we need simple things. Thats why art for me is passion: I cant live without painting or drawing and Ive been exhibiting for three years. When I discover that people like my work, I am greatly satisfied by the emotions my artworks stirs up, even if they are different from those I felt painting.My favourite painters are Klimt, Schiele, Hopper, Bacon, Rothko, Basquiat and Haring. Somebody said I am like Caravaggio because I paint reality. Obviously the results are different from those of Caravaggio because I am living in modern times and the things I see and love are commercials, comics books, cartoons, posters, MTV and photographs (my grandfather was a photograph and all his son (except my father!) are photographs too). I love the reality around me, I think its perfect and from this reality that my fantasies start, coming to the sheet or to the canvas. And from the canvas people watching my paintings feel my feelings and dreams. Art keeps us in touch, like we are falling into the paintings and meet each other there. To fall and let ourselves go we reveal a lot of things and let us deeply understand things that happen around us.So I let myself go and I depict how I see reality, between photographs and cartoons. I like outlines, high contrasts and the relative simplicity of basic signs.I use acrylic paint and brushes to have control over the paint substance and an immediate outcome. In fact, I try to transfer as fast as possible the emotions people give me, therefore making other people as happy as I am while I am painting.Maybe artwork does not need words but art needs education and open minded public. My hope for the future is a school where kids can learn how to see art in order to love it and do not be scared by contemporary art. www.marycinque.it www.artsevents.it/
Education:
2010 Capturing the elusive here, workshop by Isidro Blasco, Areaodeon, Monza
2009 ISCED 3, graphic design and photography, “U. Boccioni” Art Institute, Naples.
2008 Workshops: Lorenzo Bruni, Gianni Caravaggio, Bianco-Valente, William Stok, Lucio Pozzi
Two years program in contemporary art, Academy of Fine Arts, Milan. Advisor: Francesco Poli, professor in Art Economics. Thesis title: “Die Reise. Today Berlin art scene”, 110/110 with honors
2002 One-year program in Illustration and comics, Comix school, Naples
2001 BFA, painting. Academy of fine arts, Naples. Advisor: Massimo Bignardi, professor of art history. Thesis title: “A history of graphic design in Region of Campania: the last thirty years”, 110/110 with honors
1996 Four year humanities studies, Amalfi, Italy.
Exhibitions:
Solo exhibition:
2017 L’illusione di Dedalo, curator Massimo Bignardi, Italian cultural Institute, Cologne, Germany
2016 L’illusione di Dedalo, curator Massimo Bignardi, Centro Luigi Di Sarro, Roma
Eco-, curator Massimo Sgroi, Fornace Falcone Cilento Outlet Village, Eboli (SA)
2015 Un'idea di Parigi, curators Chiara Reale e Lara Carbonara, French Institute, Napoli
2013 Urban Stories, curator Ada Patrizia Fiorillo, MARTE, Cava de' Tirreni (SA)
2011 Acque d'Italia, curator Marcella Ferro, Architecture faculty Federico II University library with an introduction by professor Massimo Bignardi
Città in istanti, curator Massimo Bignardi, Chiostro di San Galgano, Literature and philosophy faculty, Siena University
2010 Cover, curator Ciro Cacciola, MADRE museum cafè, Napoli
2009 Acque Chiare, curator Massimo Bignardi, Palazzo Sasso, Ravello (SA)
Giramondo, curator Pasquale Ruocco, The foundry, London
Aereo, curator Valentina Rippa, Largo Baracche, Napoli
2007 Il mARTtedì del Magenta, curator Silvia Pettinicchio, Milano
Her artwork "Salon d'automne" is in MÄ (Environmental art museum), Giffoni Sei Casali (SA)
2016 Cammina leggero perché cammini sui miei sogni, curator Teo De Palma, Museo Giovanni Palatucci, Campagna (SA)
Il tutto è più della somma delle sue parti, curator Maria Letizia Paiato, Palariviera, San Benedetto del Tronto (AP)
2015 Ri-disegnare il paesaggio, curator Tiziana Gelsomino, with a text by Enzo Battarra, Castel dell丹vo, Napoli
Artlante vesuviano, curators L. D'Auria, R. Barbato and F. Cipriano, Real Polverificio Borbonico, Scafati (SA)
2014 Icona. Proposte per un'iconografia del contemporaneo, La donazione dell'Open Space, curators A. Ioffrida, G. C. Lombardi, M. M. Soricaro, FraC museum, Baronissi (SA)
Centro – Periferia, international contest Federculture for young artists, shortlisted, Terme di Diocleziano, Roma
Mantegna cercasi, art contest artistico for young artists, shortlisted, Casa del Mantegna, Mantova
2013 Iside contemporanea, curator Ferdinando Creta, with a text by professor Ada Patrizia Fiorillo, Museo ARCOS, Benevento
Trames/Tramites, council of ministers, Porta degli Angeli, Ferrara
Divina commedia, curators M. Ipri, G. Ruffo, P. Tatafiore, Museo ARCOS, Benevento
2012 NINa, Nuova immagine napoletana curators G. Cassese, M. Di Capua, F. Morelli, V. Rivosecchi, PAN, Napoli
Premio Marina di Ravenna, show of shortlisted artists, Ravenna
53° Premio internazionale Bice Bugatti - Giovanni Segantini, invited artist, Sala Gio.I.A. Nova Milanese (MI)
Interrail, un viaggio nell'immagine, curators M. Ferro and P. Ruocco, Art's Events - Centro d'arte contemporanea, Torrecuso (BN)
2011 Lo stato dell'arte – Campania pavillion, 54th Venice art biennal, curator Vittorio Sgarbi, ex Tabacchificio Centola, Pontecagnano (SA)
Oleum, tracce nei linguaggi del contemporaneo, curator Massimo Bignardi, various venues, Bitonto (BA) and Museo FRaC, Baronissi (SA)
2010 Premio Mario Razzano for young artists, Benevento, Biennal, 4° edition, shortlisted, Museo ARCOS, Benevento
Capturing the elusive here, international workshop exhibition following environmental exploration by Explorart, curator Isidro Blasco, AreaOdeon, Monza, (MB)
Artefatto – Candy world curator G.A.I. Giovani Artisti Italiani, various venues, Trieste
Impresa da talenti, promoted by Union of Industrialists, advanced services section, curator: Maria Savarese PAN museum, Naples
Eruzione/eruption, curators: Giuseppe Ruffo and Pietro Tatafiore.White box gallery, New York
2009 Défense priorità dello spazio necessità del tempo, curator Pasquale Ruocco, Fës show room, Minori (SA)
2008 Sguardi Irrequieti, curators M. Ferro e P. Ruocco, Castello dell但bate, Castellabate (SA)
Ceres 4 Art, curator Silvia Pettinicchio, Wannabee Gallery, Milano
2007 13x17 curators P. Daverio and J. Blanchaert, moving exhibition Venezia, Biella, Potenza, Milano, Napoli, Chieti, Palermo, Bologna, Roma, Venezia