Nicola De Marsico
Nicola De Marsico was born in Salerno on June 25, 1996. He is a self taught artist who started creating his first artworsks around 17 years old. The first series of works by the artist “DEMA: a journey through time and space” (2015-//) is a series of abstract paintings with a strong scientific matrix. With the series "New World Disorder" (2016-18) the artist begins to get closer to figurative painting. “Distorted Portraits” (2016-18). Some paintings in this series were presented abroad during the holding of international group exhibitions of Contemporary Art.
“EDEN: the garden of Earthly delights” (2017-2019),is the fouth artwork series created by the artist, female figures portrayed in this paintings are set in abstract and timeless spaces, with resuming from the forms and stories of classical mythology, to which many elements of the works refer, from the details inside the paintings to their titles. The works of the "Eden" series are presented for the first time to the public on the occasion of the artist's first solo exhibition, curated by Mattia Maisto, held in Rome in the spring of 2018 at the Nvmen gallery. From 2019 the artist embarks on a new artistic path, opening himself to the search for new materials and New media never previously used for the realization of his works.
One of the objects that most arouses the fascination and captures the attention of the artist is the mirror, with its ability to define and distort physical reality depending on its position. From the use of mirrors and other types of reflective surfaces the idea for the series “Mirror_verse” (2019 -//) was born. During the course of 2020, the artist is dedicated to the creation of the series “Birds in a cage” in which the concepts of painting and sculpture merge their boundaries and emerge strongly from the two-dimensional surface of the canvas, overcoming the limits of conventional labels.
"Signals" (2019-//) is one of the most recent series of artworks created by the artist in which painting combines with elements from everyday life such as street and public signals.
