Who is Mario Loprete the artist who studied brilliantly at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro ? Painting is at the forefront of his life, painting is his first love, an important and pure love. His work focuses on research and documentation on the world of hip hop.

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This philosophy of life is no longer relegated beyond US borders, but can be found at any latitude. To do so, he uses the concrete as a support for his new works.

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For his sculptures, he uses his own clothes, applying plaster, resin and cement to transform them into works of art.

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His memory, his DNA, his memories remain inside concrete, transforming the viewer into a kind of post-modern archaeologist studying my work as if it were urban artifacts.