Mauro Reggio: between urban landscape, geometry and suspended time
Mauro Reggio devotes himself exclusively to the representation of the urban landscape, enhancing perspectives and architectural forms while stripping them of human presence in order to highlight their geometries and chromatic structures. His cities thus become the true and sole subject of the painting, immersed in a timeless present.
Ring roads, gasometers, Baroque palaces, and industrial archaeology are portrayed with analytical rigor, transforming into suspended visions where architecture dominates the scene.
The art of Mauro Reggio
Reggio paints monuments and architectural structures from different historical periods, starting from the chromatic heritage of the great 20th-century Italian tradition, later transformed and renewed through contemporary reflections on photography, painting, and new technologies.
His work stands out for its synthesis of tradition and contemporaneity, where perspectival precision merges with an intense chromatic sensitivity. The absence of the human figure amplifies the monumentality of the architecture, generating a silent and contemplative dimension in which urban space becomes a visual icon and a symbol of time.
Who is Mauro Reggio
Mauro Reggio was born in Rome in 1971 and graduated with honors in 1993 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in prestigious galleries, museums, and public spaces in Italy and abroad.
In 2011 and 2015, he was invited to participate in the Venice Biennale. His works are included in important public and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), the Farnesina Experimenta Collection at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the collection of the Italian Senate, which houses three large-scale paintings, one specially commissioned for the central wall of the Nassirya Hall at Palazzo Madama.
Bulgari S.p.A. has acquired and installed his works in its stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Hong Kong, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, and at its headquarters in Rome.
In 2021, he won the Premio Eccellenti Pittori with a painting depicting the Colosseum.
He lives and works in Rocca di Papa (Rome).
