Featured Visual Artist: Mario Passarello


Mario was born in Monteverdi Marittimo, Italy in 1954. He currently lives and works in Agrigento. Since 1978 Mario has exhibited successfully in his native country and throughout Europe. He is an instinctive and spontaneous painter, condensing moods and emotions through colors. Mario works in a variety of media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, and tempera. With their intensity and strong colors, his paintings are a constant search for a synthesis of color, light and movement. In addition to his work in the visual arts, Mario is a practicing shiatsu therapist and teacher. The images in this exhibition are the result of a four-year collaboration between Mario Passarello and violinist Alessandra Cuffaro, whose performances and recordings of Paganini’s famous 24 Caprices for Solo Violin inspired the original paintings. On display here are 22 digital prints of Mario’s works, plus two of the original paintings, each one a visual interpretation of a particular Paganini Caprice. For this exhibition, each image is paired with its corresponding musical score. On display October through December 2013 in Wilmington and then through February in Milford. Presented in conjunction with the Cultural Crossroads program “Sprezzatura – The Music & Culture of Italy” on November 3, 2013.


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