Mario Persico ^©  

(1930 - 2022)

Mario Persico (1930-2022) was one of the most active and influential artists in Neapolitan cultural production. In 1955 he signed the Manifesto dell'Arte Nucleare, together with artists such as Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo, and three years later he participated in the foundation of Group 58, an expression of Neapolitan nuclear painting, which gradually assumed increasingly dada and surrealist connotations, with Guido Biasi, Luca Luigi Castellano, Franco Palumbo, Mario Colucci and Lucio Del Pezzo. Known for his dysmorphic and monstrous pictorial subjects, his fields of research include sculpture, practicable objects, theater and eroticism. At the beginning of the sixties, the artist began to introduce in his paintings also other material elements, extra-pictorial, such as buttons and gears, but also parts of furniture and furnishings.