Concrete Sculpture
Second & third row: untitled concrete sculptures
Mario Loprete ,Catanzaro 1968, Graduate at Accademia of Belle Arti , Catanzaro (ITALY)
For my concrete sculptures, I use my personal clothing. Through my artistic process in which I use plaster, resin and cement, I transform these articles of clothing into artworks to hang. The intended effect is that my DNA and my memory remain inside the ​concrete, so that the person who looks at these sculptures is transformed into a type of postmodern archeologist, studying my work as urban artifacts.
I like to think that those who look at my sculptures created in 2020 will be able to perceive the anguish, the vulnerability, the fear that each of us has felt in front of a planetary problem that was covid 19 … under a layer of cement there are my clothes with which I lived this nefarious period. Clothes that survived COVID-19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii, capable of recounting man’s inability to face the tragedy of broken lives and destroyed economies. www.instagram.com/marioloprete/