Renato Marino Mazzacurati

He studies in Veneto, then he moves to Rome at a very young age (1926) and he gets involved with the main artists active in Rome at the time.

He frequents Villa Strohl-Fern, where he meets Francesco Di Cocco and Arturo Martini, of whom he becomes personal assistant in 1927 and 1928.

He meets the artists and literates at Café Aragno’s “Third Room” on Via del Corso, and at Rome’s Fine Art Academy he meets Mafai, Raphaël and Scipione, starting a very deep friendship with them.

The various artistic influences, from Novecento’s primitivism to the Scuola Romana’s tonalism, enrich his cultural background, which will be completed by a trip to Paris, getting in touch with the most avantgarde European trends, particularly in regards to sculpture. In 1930 with Scipione he funds the “Fronte” magazine, only published twice in 1931. Always loyal to a sacred idea of the trade, he trains with artisans and decorators from Padua. From the 1930s he almost exclusively sculpts. In those years, he produces remarkable critical art pieces against the regime, often infused with scathing and grotesque irony. Political commitment and a reflection on the Resistance will be the underlying theme in all his subsequent production, mainly consisting of figurative pieces and memorials.

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Sculpture

Since the 1930s he has devoted himself almost exclusively to sculpture. In those years he produced works with a marked polemical accent against the regime, often pervaded by biting and grotesque irony.
Political commitment and reflection on the Resistance will be the common thread linking his later artistic production, producing mainly figurative works and memorials.

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