Mario Marcucci

Mario Marcucci was born in Viareggio 1910 and after completing his middle school in 1924, decided to embark with his father, Captain coasting, and elder brother. Despite the demands of work was able to pursue his passion for drawing and painting, cultivated as a child.
For Marcucci, the family environment, humble, but with solid values, constituted a fundamental point of emotional reference, that dedicated its life to its austerity of manners, which also distinguished his painting. A simple means of expression confirmed by the frequent use of media such as random pages of a newspaper, the paper in a notebook, the reverse of a postcard or a piece of wrapping paper.
His first works date from the late twenties and early thirties, and show a preference for painting in oils and watercolor, through which portrays subjects drawn from the domestic environment and family. This period of artistic youth, is usually described by critics: naive and subject to the influence of the great masters of the period as Macchiaiolo Giovanni Fattori and Silvestro Lega.
Between 1930 and 1932 was called to perform military service as a quartermaster in the Navy Department in La Spezia, where he made friends with the painter and writer Luke Ghiselli, established a partnership with which the intellectual and artistic, essential for its formation.
Marcucci won its first award in 1932, winning a prize of 1000 lire ranked as the first painting competition organized on the occasion of the Viareggio literary award, Cabins for the work on the sea.
Following military discharge, he returned to Viareggio, where, while never abandoning his artistic, from 1933 the 1938 administered a fishing boat. Attending the Aeolus, coffee-movie theater, on the promenade facing the sea was able to deal with writers, painters and intellectuals of Versilia.
In 1934 an exhibition held at the Kursaal, or the casinos of Viareggio, accompanied by a review of Gino Parenti, through which the figure is closer to the style of Scipio (Gino Bonichi) and Mario Mafai. Then, in 1937, won, on a par with Fabio Sargentini, Viani Prize, ottenendo la stima di Carlo Carrà, which the signal of an article '"Ambrosian" as one of the most remarkable figures of the young Italian painting.
In the following years he continued to achieve numerous awards and recognitions from intellectual, literary and art critics, and thanks to the personality of Alessandro Parronchi was introduced in the circle of literati in Florence, but shortly after moving to town, in 1939, was called up and sent to Sardinia, island of La Maddalena, where he remained until 1941.
In 1940 The Million exhibited at the Galleria in Milan, dove la sua pittura fu messa in rapporto con quella di grandi artisti come Giorgio Morandi, Ottone Rosai e Filippo De Pisis.
The following year came the official recognition of his work, nationwide, by winning the third prize Bergamo, one of the most prestigious competitions in Italy.
After the war, his style kept away from the line currents influenced by political ideologies that dominated the debate about, continuing its path towards a more intimate paintings and tonal.
After the victory at the Galleria Il Fiore in Florence, nel 1945, Lawn and prizes, nelin48, took part in the Fifth Quadrennial in Rome and 1948 was invited to the XXIV Biennale di Venezia, dove rimase colpito dalle opere di Picasso, as evidenced by some of his Cubist-derived.
Fifty years with its exhibition activity became less intense and after a stay in Rome, He returned to Florence, in 1966, following the destruction of his studio by the flood and then finally in Viareggio.
In 1968 the Gallery of Prato Farsetti dedicated a show with 100 works, collecting contributions in the catalog of his admirers, Pananti in Florence and began publishing the publication of "Quaderni Marcucci", from 1984 the 1987, consist of small collections in support of thematic exhibitions.
He died in 1992.

Mario Marcucci was a self-taught, refractory to any post within the artistic currents of the first half of the twentieth century, who developed and maintained a personal pictorial language, influenced primarily by cultural exchanges with important personalities of Italian culture. To inspire his work was the landscape Viareggio, or the land of his birth, with its colors and its atmosphere, that represented the artist for a constant reference point. Through a careful modulation of light and color, He reproduced streets, squares, pine, marine, views of citizens, but also still lifes, investigating these places all the possible variations of a tonal language, and thus make his inner feelings. The exploration of color is almost an obsession Marcucci, which led him to pursue his artistic experiments using materials as diverse as support for its production in oil or watercolor. The color is for him a means to capture the forms of reality as represented by him, characterized by highly personal interpretation.

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