Biography
Mauro Reggio (Rome 1971). He graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1993.
From the second half of the Nineties his work focuses on the urban landscape, in a pictorial perspective of a figurative and modern type, extracting a purified, desert vision. As in a simultaneous journey through the ages, centuries and styles, Reggio unites the ring roads with classical ruins, the Baroque with twentieth-century rationalism, archeology with technology.
Mauro Reggio is a "city painter", that is to say that the protagonists of his canvases and watercolors are the architectures, the streets, the squares, the urban framings and, secondly, the silent inhabitants of these contexts: the sculptures that once, that of walls to painters, integrated the appearance of the most important buildings and still introduce a very particular human presence, albeit idealized and mostly entrusted to colossal dimensions. For this reason, he rightfully belongs to the group of new landscape painters who, with no ties to their nineteenth-century or even twentieth-century predecessors, revisit a theme that has long been neglected, as it is too worn out. Mauro Reggio, with his sunny classicizing descriptions of today's Roman landscape, his warm lights that are so influenced by the tones of the Roman School transplanted onto a landscape that the artist brings back from chaos to order, works along a line of redefinition of the landscape according to coordinates that require a strong stylization and a work of excavation and focus, through the light, of the essential lines of the urban landscape, which often takes the form of a sort of emotional walk along the streets of Rome, the city that the painter lived and knew better. The monuments of the ancient, modern and post-modern city are therefore united by a color system linked to the great Italian tradition of the twentieth century, renewed and transformed however by reflections on the relationship between painting, photography and the new technologies with which the painter realizes his personal work of selection of perceptive and constructive data.
