Concrete Ice Cream

Mario Loprete is a graduate from the Accademia of Belle Arti of Catanzaro. Painting is his first love. An important, pure love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept with which he wants to transmit his message this is the foundation of his painting. The sculpture is his lover, the artistic betrayal to the painting that voluptuous and sensual lover that inspires different emotions which strike prohibited chords. For his concrete sculptures, he uses his personal clothing. Through an artistic process in which he uses plaster, resin, and cement, he transforms these articles of clothing into artworks to hang. The intended effect is that his DNA and his memory remain inside the ​concrete, so that the person who looks at these sculptures is transformed into a type of postmodern archeologist, studying their works as urban artefacts.