Mary Cinque

Mary Cinque

London, United Kingdom

About Mary Cinque

"Although she was born in 1979, that is to say at the end of a generational grouping known as Generation X, Mary grew up in the one that Strauss and Howe called Generation Y or Millennials. Despite growing up in this environment, through the questions she asks of life Mary succeeds in maintaining an intangible equilibrium between the two generations. Her identity has of course been moulded by a number of factors: a childhood spent in Addis Ababa, a classics-based education, the richness and cultural multiplicity of her family environment, studies of image and communication, and indeed her work on the history of the graphic “manifesto” in the Campania region (a degree thesis for which I was the supervisor, submitted in 2001 to the Naples Academy of Fine Arts), followed by further study into economics and the art market at the Accademia di Brera. Last but not least, her interest in the graphic arts and photography. This multifaceted education and upbringing has enabled the artist to turn her gaze on the “city” without yielding to the lure of the pictorial representation-based approach espoused by the “new urban landscapists” or, alternately, the blandishments of media focused solely on communication. Like Elio Vittorini in the pages of his book Le città del mondo (published posthumously in 1969), in which he encapsulated the world within a tale about Sicily during Italy’s economic boom years, so Mary attempts to “narrate” her Naples, returning to live there after years of moving between New York, Philadelphia, Milan, Addis Ababa and the Amalfi Coast, where she had her studio." (Abstract from Massimo Bignardi's “Moving: From Cities to The City”)

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.

Events:

The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles

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