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Mario Prencipe was born in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan) on 06/27/1965. In 1983 he graduated from art school in Milan, and in 1987 he took part in a collective exhibition at the Modigliani Gallery, Milan. During the 1990s, he dedicated himself to a life as a traveling artist, through numerous European countries, visiting the great museums and getting to know their artistic environments. In 1998 Mario participated in the "Grand Prix de la Côte d’Azur" International Exhibition in Nice, France. Thoughout the 2000s he took a series of trips to Africa, absorbing the ancestral and ingenious character of its artistic culture. In 2005 Mario exhibited his artwork at the “Instituto Camões”, Portuguese Cultural Center of Cidade da Praia, Cabo Verde, and then in 2006 at the Espace Medina, Dakar, Senegal where he met Cheikh Anta Diop's assistant, who spoke to him about African Pre-Colonial culture and the origin of the geometry that was born at the time of the ancient Egyptians on the banks of the Nile river, where it was necessary to divide fértile lands into lots adjacent to the banks. From that moment on, Mario focused on the geometric structures of the lots and noticed that by changing the places, the geometric concept of these shapes also change. He used this concept to think of new artistic compositions aimed at describing the aesthetic notion that distinguishes the various cultures. His geometric influenced works were produced in 2012 after he had crossed a large number of countries on every continent, taking the name of "Ancient Geometries". In 2006 he was the first Western artist to exhibit in the Indian state of Rajasthan, at the Samanvai Gallery, Jaipur. The subject matter of the art painted relates to the spirituality and symbolism of that culture. In 2007 Mario exhibited at Gallery 36 in Kiev, Ukraine and at Galleria Braque in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He showcased his work in 2008 at the Palazzo Podestà in Rimini, Italy and at Anca Gallery, Canberra, Australia. From that same year through 2009, he traveled to various countries in Central America exhibiting at Centro Costarricense de la Ciencia y la Cultura in the National Gallery de Costa Rica, The National Museum of Nicaragua located inside the Palacio de la Cultura Managua, and finally at The “Museo Miraflores” through the organization of the “Istituto Italiao di Cultura” in Guatemala City. During this period, Mario became familiar with the greatness of Pre-Columbian art along with the misery of the poor neighborhoods in this geographical área. Furthermore, using his realizations he brought together these two elements in a work called Ancestors Disappointment, as well as a series dedicated to the Central American destitution and the Pre-Columbian Art. In 2010 Mario exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum of Komsomolk-na-Amur, Russia and at Antonio Machado Cultural Center in Madrid, Spain. The following year in 2011, Mario toured the Eastern Caribbean exhibiting at Grenada National Museum. He then traveled to China where he established a collaboration relationship with the Shen Chang Gallery in Hang Zhou, leading to his participation in various Chinese art fairs: the Yiwu International Art Festival 2012, the Shenzhen International Art Fair 2012, the West Lake International Art Fair 2013 and 2016, and in 2017 at the Gallery of the University of Science and Technology of China in He Fei. In 2012 he exhibited in the Baltic countries: the E-Kunstisalong, Tartu in Estonia and at the Ukmerge Culture Center in Lithuania. In 2013 Mario traveled to the Philippines where he showcased at the Avellana Gallery, Manila, a new series of works called "Cause of Case.” Its concept expresses the absolutely random character that regulates the events and choices in the artist's life. These works are therefore related to the philosophical concept of casualism and were produced until 2015, being exhibited in 2014 at the Italian Cultural Institute of Nairobi, Kenya, in 2015 at the State Art and Sculpture Museum in Ankara, Turkey and in the same year at the Luz y Oficios Gallery in Havana,Cuba. In 2017 Mario exhibited for the first time in the United States in the Paseo Gallery One in Oklahoma City and in the Venvi Art Gallery in Tallahassee. In 2018 he presented at the Chaos Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia and at the Alliace Française in Pretoria, South Africa, a new series of works called “Counter Perspective”, facing the theme of space, in which he conceives distant things as if they were close, such as looking at a map of an exotic place and imagining oneself in that place. Starting from this principle, in constructing a composition, the elements of the background plane pass into the foreground, but without altering the proportion, in the same way the elements that should have been in the foreground pass instead into the background, thus creating an imaginary overturning of the perspective. This bizarre idea stems from a definition that Leonardo da Vinci makes in the Treatise on Painting about the vanishing point, describing how the images in perspective, as they get closer to the vanishing point, shrink until they disappear, where he defines the vanishing point as the representation of all things because all forms are contained in it. Prencipe's intention is therefore to free the forms contained in the vanishing point, but in a counter-perspective sense, conceptually reflecting, for example, the scientific visionary character of possible future events, which in the eyes of most may seem distant and improbable. In 2019 Prencipe exhibited a more complete series of works based on the counter-perspective at the Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, Armenia. Mario exhibited the following year in 2020 at the Cathedral of Faro, Portugal. His exhibition consisted of compositions created with timber from marine wreckage found in the surrounding area of the Ria Formosa.

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