mario
picardo
Mario Picardo,a former student of semiology,photographs,films and collects traces of our society to feed a library of signs and forms at the heart of his many drawings. Educated by American painting and the popular culture of the 90s, he uses this vast survey as a basis for his paintings.
Growing up alongside his father, a house painter, Mario Picardo inherited an attraction for building materials like polyurethane, largely preferred to those of the Beaux-Arts.
The urban landscape is a daily inspiration source for Mario Picardo. Whenever he’s moving in town, he draws his phone to shoot, film and collect hints of our society. Be it a simple food wrap or abandoned object, everything comes together to form a library of clues and shapes fueling the many concepts that will later fill whole sketchbooks.
This is from this well of references that Mario Picardo, himself passionate about semiology, American painting and the 90s’ popular culture, draws the inspiration to paint.
However, his work couldn’t be narrowed to a mere reproduction of what he’s seen and collected in his notebooks : in the serenity of his studio, the painter dedicates all his energy to express the shapes and signs of the city on large canvas, patchworks etc.
In his creations, flashy colors meet with black, sober elements on various supports such as re- coated elements, stretched on frames, paper, fulfilling the artist’s purpose to raise handicraft to the state of art.
Growing up alongside his father, a house painter, Mario Picardo inherited an attraction for building materials, widely preferred over those of the fine arts, and a certain taste for thoroughness.The times he spent in his fathers’ truck, used as a traveling workshop, gave him a taste for optimisation and the reappropriation of spaces and materials.
awards and residencies
2023
Résidence Château de Forbin, Marseille, France
2022
Kith, Paris, France
2021
Fonds de dotations Weiss, Paris, France
2020
Vitrines d’Hiver, Hermès, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, France
2019
Vitrines d’Hiver, Hermès, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, France
Winsor and Newton Residency, Colart Head building, London, UK
solo exhibitions
2024
Sugar Rush, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Quatre-Heures, Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
2023
Noisy Garden, Long Short Story Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2022
« Catch’em All » , a-topos’ curator, Gaya Goldcymer, Jonathan Taieb, Poush Clichy, France
Kick-Off, Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
2021
« Malabar Express », Fonds de dotation Weiss - Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
« Catch’em All », Nanoville film - Poush Manifesto, Paris, France
2020
« Choc Psycko », Karl Marx Studio, Paris, France
« Momentum », a-topos’ curator, Gaya Goldcymer, Jonathan Taieb, Galerie Épisodique, Paris, France
« Saludos Amigos », Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris, France
2018
« The fifth turtle », Galerie P38, Paris, France
collective exhibitions
2024
Collaboration with Valentin Bony, Romero Paprocki
2023
Good Symptoms, Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
The Cuteness Factor, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hongrie
Mixed Pickles 12, Galerie Ruttkowski68, New-York, USA
2022
A Parallel View Point, commissaire Leo Orta, Les Moulins
Noisy Pals, Another Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Blur Me Tender, Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
2021
« Daily Cat Essen », Galerie Ruttkowski68, Paris, France
« Both ends burning », La Volonté 93, Saint Ouen sur Seine, France
« So Close II », Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
2020
« Cosmopolis », Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
« So Close », Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
« Living Room », Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris, France
2019
« Abstract Expresionism », Quentin Euverte X Mario Picardo feat. Eddie Martinez, Paris, France
« Exposition automatique : pas de raison », Commissariat Lou Ros, Paris, France
« Paris Peinture Plus .2 », Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Galerie Slika, Lyon, France
« Paris Peinture Plus », Galerie MR14, Paris, France
« Print Fighter – Round 2 », Galerie 100 titres, Bruxelles, Belgium
« 2nd CAA INTERNATIONAL PRINTMAKING TRIENNALE », Curators : Wernher Bouwens with Marc Desgrampchamps, Dajmel Tatah, Camille Poulie, Edouard Wolton, Baptiste Caccia, Taline Zabounian, Gfeller and Hellsgaard, Damien Deroubaix, Olivier Moriette, PrintJam, Mathilde Ollitraut-Bernard, Miquel Mont, CAAmuseum of Art, Hangzhou, China
2018
« Kissaria Print Exhibition », Curators : Nassim Azarzar, Hicham Bouzid, Amina Mourid, with Guillaume de Ubeda, Antoine Eckart, Yto Barrada, Anuar Khalifi, Theo Ampilhac, Charlotte Pollet, Sandrine Corbin, Soukaina Jaoual, Rita Alaoui, Zinab Benjelloun, Tanger, Marocco
« L’Entre-Deux », a-topos’ curator, Gaya Goldcymer, Jonathan Taieb, Galerie Épisodique, Paris, France
2017
« Post-insulte », curators : Antwan Horfée & Hugo Vitrani, with Alix Desaubliaux, Antwan Horfee, Frédéric Platéus, Jon Pilkington, Ken Sortais, Nicolas Momein, Simone Zaccagnini, SKKi©, Stéphane Calais, Stevie Dix, The Bells Angels, Clichy, France
« Printers Matters 2 », Multiple art days 3, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
« Casse et vole », curators : Stéphane Calais, Antwan Horfée, Hugo Vitrani, with : Aline Bouvy, Stéphane Calais, Idir Davaine, Louis Granet, Antwan Horfée, Renée Levy, Galerie MR14, Paris, France
leo
luccioni
Leo Luccioni (b.1994, France) lives and works in Brussels.
His multidisciplinary practice moves seamlessly between installation, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Through a colourful, pop and gaudy aesthetics, Luccioni highlights the ambiguity of our relationship with consumerism in a neoliberalism era. Between seduction and abhorrence, ephemeral and sacred, his work involves daily-life standardised products to which are given precious and fictional forms. His pieces become the characters of a fictional narration, comically similar to entrepreneurial storytelling.
Under the disguise of humour and deliberate anti-poesy, Leo Luccioni’s work is deeply conceptual. His subtly provocative practice constantly applies capitalistic phenomenons, such as counterfeit, delocalised production of his own pieces, and advertising, to the artistic field, questioning the absurdity of mass production and the illusion of material happiness of our time.
education
2017
Master Printmaking, La Cambre, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts visuels, Brussels, Belgium
award and residencies
2022
Ravi residence, Mar 2022 to May 2022, Liège, Belgium
Palazzo Monti, Jun 2022, Brescia, Italy
2021
Laureate Prix Jeune Artiste, Sculpture et installation, Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Belgium
2020
Centre Intermonde, Nov 2019 to Jan 2020, La Rochelle, France
2018
Third prize of the Komask Printmaking Award, grand prix Européen, Anvers, Belgium
Laurent Moonens, Oct 2017 to June 2018, Brussels, Belgium
Prize Dacos, Museum la Boverie, Liège, Belgium
2017
Laureate Prize Fédération wallonie Bruxelles, La Médiatine, Bruxelles, Belgium
Laureate International Printmaking Biennal, Museum la Boverie, Liège, Belgium
Laureate Coups de cœur Prize des Amis de La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
Laureate Laurent Moonens Prize, Brussels, Belgium
Prize Médiatine, La Médiatine, Brussels, Belgium
solo exhibitions
2024
« The Sun Does Not Exist », Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2023
« ACID », Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
« Flamin Hot Nacho Cheese Flavour », Ave Gallery, Courtrai, Belgium
2022
« GOUVERNER », UHODA Fondation, Liège, Belgium
« Nunc est Bibendum », The New Space, Liège, Belgium
« Praise of Power », Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
« Spiritualium rerum Materialium », Chapelle des Dames Blanches, La Rochelle, France
2021
« Chakra Disco Buddha », NADA, New York, USA
« Royal Gala », Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020
« Egregorien », Everyday Gallery, Anvers, Belgium
« Hyperstition » Centre Intermonde, La Rochelle, France
2019
« Nul si découvert », Hotel de ville de Paris, Paris, France
2018
« SALE », Moonens Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2017
« Burnworld, Waterworld, Marketworld », PMK, Brussels, Belgium
collections
2022
UHODA COLLECTION, Liège, Belgium (Installation GOUVERNER)
Palazzo Monti, Milan, Italy (Le curateur, la créature, le créateur, 2022)
2020
Centre Intermonde, La Rochelle, Fance (Le curateur, la créature, le créateur, 2020)
Thailywood foundation, Mar, Bruxelles, Belgium (Lays nature, 2020)
Prize Louis Schmidt, Salle Allende, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Christie's, Gand, Belgium (IKB 1500, 2018)
2018
Collection amis de La Cambre, Jan, Bruxelles, Belgium (Coolonialisme, 2018)
Museum la Boverie, collection du cabinet des estampes, Liège, Belgium (Ex-Voto 36 & 10, 2018)