Mario Maretti Biography
Mario Moretti (1937 – 2017) was born in 1937 in Rome, where he lived and worked, alternating with working trips to Paris and the island of Elba. He began to paint, self-taught, in the 1950s, joining the movement of "New Figuration", he attended the studios of various artists, forming friendships with Ennio Calabria, Piero Guccione, Giacomo Porzano, Carlo Cattaneo, Giovanni Omiccioli, Antonio Corpora and many others. In the 1970s he dedicated a series of etchings to Giorgio Morandi, one of his favorite painters and engravers. Moretti prefers landscape painting which he chooses after a solitary and careful observation of his surroundings. The vision it gives us back belongs to the internal reality of mental paths and evolutions, transfiguring the primitive inspiration into a metaspace of astral light. He has exhibited in several cities in Europe, including London, Brighton, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Lausanne, Geneva, Skagen, Brussels, Cairo and in the main Italian cities, such as Turin, Milan, Brescia, Bergamo, Bologna, Reggio Emilia , Florence, Arezzo, Rome, Naples, Bari, Taranto, Catania. He participated, at a very young age, in the VIII Roman Quadrennial, and in 1992 in the X Art Biennial of Barcelona. In February 2008 he was present with an exhibition at Palazzo Gazzoli in Terni, and in 2010 another important anthology was held at Palazzo Valentini in Rome. In 2011, he was invited to the 54th Venice Biennale.
