MARAMGONI
The São Paulo painter, who today bases his work on acrylic paint on canvas, using old photographs and history books as a basis.
Although he only discovered his dyslexia at the age of 36, already a renowned artist, knowledge freed him, bringing understanding about the difficulties he experienced and the importance of art, which allowed him to walk without fear.
He worked extensively as a self-taught artist, developing an aesthetic heavily influenced by lines, perspective, and architecture—influences that took shape when he studied architecture (albeit informally) and became familiar with classical styles such as Greco-Roman.
His work focuses on urban settings, memories of place, architecture, landscapes, and everyday scenes, with a nostalgic yet vigorous approach that connects the past and present.
@MARAMGONI
2021
COMPOSITION FROM SÃO PAULO
The artist painted since he was nine years old and, being dyslexic, found in art a passport to the world. The visceral relationship with the paint and the canvas results in instigating works of art. His technique, as shows in the “Paulist Composition”, it is based on the knowledge of the canons of academicism, as concepts of light and shadow and the dialogue between colors, added to the self-taught research since the first contact with painting. His urban visions are characterized by a architectural type of principles, like perspective and continuity of the lines, that in the effects of light find a unique and diverse language. His cities are private, only to be recognized by some references, but they’re also universal by the atmosphere given by the brush stroke style. The essential is not what it’s painted, but how it is painted.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2022
HAPPY HOUR
The work entitled "Dança das Luzes" presents two essential elements. The first being the idea of movement, because the images precisely present concreteness in space, which suggests a permanent dynamic. Besides that, the element of light is fundamental not only because it is about Photographyy, but mainly, because it's about facing a reunion of images that stimulate a reflection about the greatness and calmness of the universe.
That way, the attentive observation of each plastic construction presented, constitutes a way of dialoguing with the potentialities of the cosmos.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2023
IRELAND - DUBLIN 1940'S
The way of dealing with light in pictorial space is the main differentiating element of the artist. Whatever scene is portrayed, there is the creation of a peculiar atmosphere. Who are these people? Where do they go? Where do they look? The scene establishes a climate of mystery based on the looks of the characters and tonalities. Thus, through an improved technical doing, the observer is led to a reflection on the possibilities of art to create fascinating worlds.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2024
REALEJO
Art emerges from two complementary movements. On one side, the artist's relationship with society and how he interprets it in his work. On the other, his interaction with himself, exploring his creative potential. Maramgoní’s carefully crafted technique, with an emphasis on light and shadow, evokes a past where relationships between people were more direct, unmediated by mass communication and social media.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2025
MONALISA VISITS LONDON
Historical issues such as Leonardo da Vinci's visit to London or even Mona Lisa's passage through the English city are not important within the artist's poetic development. The work makes everything possible through the use of visual resources that deal with a magical rhetoric in which every kind of journey is possible between what exists, what may come to be, and what art provides as creative potential.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
MARAMGONÍ
by himself
I've been painting since I was 9 years old, I'm dyslexic and art saved me.
