Mario Julio Faustino

Welcome to my page in Saatchi Gallery! My name Mario Faustino, I am Portuguese, I was born in Angola and live in a wonderful city called Berlin!

Artist statement...

"I am an artist of my time an autodidact and as a student, I use several and different materials and media, as in my collages, for example. I like drawing with pencil and oil is my favourite Medium. In the endless pursuit of technique I think I developed a certain working method into something of my own."

"My paintings are constantly worked out, which gives them a certain character, as if on a journey throughout time. Usually I work with ready colours as well as with pigment, mixing them myself on architect paper to get rid of extra oil, which I add as needed pretty much in the way the Great Masters from the Renaissance to Modern Art would do."

The influences of different eras are visible in my work, the highlights perhaps to the Neoclassicism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, which I remember with special attention."

"(...) Mankind is one of my first qualms. The Universal Man with all his virtues error contentment and anxieties, even in his absence, as a person and as a human being and with everything that goes with it, whether that is a chair, a ...

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