Mario Pascariello
I have burned essential moments
in the vortex of the immense wave of life.
BIOGRAPHY
He lives an intense life, full of vital experiences and frequentations of various types of people and environments not homologated to the prevailing social patterns, characterized by a symbiotic relationship with Nature, with a particular predilection for the sea and the sun, constantly striving for intense research of the answers to the great existential questions: why do we suffer? why do you die? God exists? and if it exists, can we have a relationship with him? why man has created a social structure that makes people unhappy? ... Drawing on the wisdom contained in various texts of Western and especially Eastern philosophy, he finds theoretical support from authoritative sources for his path characterized by disinterest in hectic life and superficial typical of the model proposed / imposed by the society of profit and consumption. In the first years following his adolescence he lived mainly living in self-managed farms, ashrams and municipalities in Florence, Rome and Bologna, trying to lead a simple but profound life as taught by the Sages of all time. Throughout his life he provides for his basic needs by doing various "short-term" jobs.
In the second half of the 80s he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, where he obtained a Degree in Painting, and embarked on a pictorial journey with exhibitions throughout Italy. Towards the end of the 90s, advised by various people who appreciated his natural comic vis, he decided to start a training course as a comic actor, attending in 2000 the Permanent Comic Workshop directed by Bruno Nataloni, Corrado Nuzzo and Sandra Cavallini, an interesting experience that it allows him to begin to become aware of his own potential from a professional perspective. After some other training experience and participation in some comedy festivals, the meeting with Tommaso MiceliMalaguti inaugurates the beginning of an artistic research that has been going on continuously since May 2008 and which has resulted in the creation of two comic-satirical / existential theater works. : "I'm bad out" (debut June 27, 2009 at the Teatro del Navile in Bologna) and "You're either busy or you're unemployed! ... we were men, we became workers" (debut June 2, 2015 at the Teatro del Lampadiere in Bologna) .
In 2018 the debut in video art with the work "An applause to Mother Nature", of which he is the author, interpreter and director, with which he participates in the same year at the OFF ORTOMETRAGGI Festival held in Borgagne (LE).
In 2019 he made in collaboration with Tommaso MiceliMalaguti the short film “Miracle! Mother Nature appeared to me ”. The opera has won many awards at international film festivals
TRAINING AND MAIN PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
THEATER AND VIDEOART
THEATER AND CINEMA
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TRAINING AND MAIN PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
1986
He participates as an actor and set designer in the opera of the “Theater Gotzenhain” (The Count's Beard) by I. Calvino in the replica staged in Pfoorzheim (Germany).
1988
- He takes care of the scenography in collaboration with Lino Marra of the opera "Il Dibbuk" staged by the Company "Theater Research Institute" Bologna, represented at the Bellinzona Theater in Bologna, defined as "sober but intense" in a review published in the Resto del Carlino of January 27, 1988.
- He participates as an actor and set designer in the opera "The enigma of the sixth voice" staged by the company "Centro theatrale Roselle" at the Bologna Unity Festival.
2000
- Co-star actor in the short film “Continua” produced by Bradipo Film and directed by Riccardo Sai. This short film participated in the Ultracorti Festival in Rome.
- Attends the "Permanent comic workshop" led by Sandra Cavallini, Corrado Nuzzo and Bruno Nataloni.
2004
Participate in the "Emerging Cabaret Festival" (Modena).
2005
Take part in the "Totò Prize for Comedy".
2006
Take part in the comedy competition “B. Beautiful ”(Teatro Astra, Bellaria).
2007
Take part in the "National and International Laughter Festival" (Muggiò).
2009
- Actor in the short film “The seller” directed by Ruben Maria Soriquez.
- On June 27 (rerun on 28) he made his debut at the “Teatro del Navile” in Bologna with the show “I'm male out” written and performed by him, directed by Tommaso MiceliMalaguti.
The show is repeated several times in the same theater during the 2009-10 season.
From 2010 to 2013 replicas in theaters and unconventional places in Bologna (main theaters in Bologna: Teatro Fantomas, Teatro Tivoli, Teatro San Salvatore).
Performances outside the province of Bologna: 2010 (from 7 to 10 January) "Teatro Abarico" in Rome - 2010 (20 March) - 2011 "The house of the artists" Lecce (8 August) and Rimini Municipal Library (2 March) - 2012 (March 31) Aldo Fabrizi Theater in Morlupo (Rome).
2015
On 2 June he made his debut at the Teatro del Lampadiere in Bologna with the show written and interpreted by him "Or are you busy or are you unemployed" (directed by Tommaso MiceliMalaguti). Repeat in the same year on 24 October of the same year as part of the "Fermata Teatro" review.
2018
He participates in OFF_Ortometraggi Film Festival in Borgagne (Lecce), with the short film “An applause to Mother Nature” of which he is the author, director and performer.
VISUAL ART
Degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna .
MAIN EXHIBITIONS
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1984 Participate in: "The Signs of Emancipation". Collective exhibition, Palazzo Re Enzo, Sala dei Trecento (Bologna).
1986 Take part in: “Strassen Theater Zum Thema Umwelt”. Environmental intervention, Wiesbadea (Germany)
1987 Take part in "Sentiero". Environmental intervention, Respighi Park, Zola Predosa (Bologna).
1988 Realizes the sets for the show “Il dibbuk”, set up by the Theater Research Institute of Bologna.
He participates in “Arti interrupted”, group exhibition, Palazzo Re Enzo, Sala dei Seicento (Bologna).
Participate with slides in "Modern Dance Performance", Flexing Inc. Dance (Bologna).
Participate with graffiti in "The Enigma of the Sixth Vocal". Show of stories, actions and graffiti to cross a labyrinth. Roselle Theater Center (Bologna).
Ventana Cultural Center Exhibition (Lecce).
1989 Participates in "Expo Arte" (Bari) with a recommendation from prof. Giovanni Mundula, professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna.
Personal exhibition at the Exhibition Hall of the Municipality of Calderara di Reno (Bologna).
He participates in “Marginalia”, collective exhibition in the Civic Center Hall of Carpi (Modena).
1990 He exhibits at the “Intimo” Gallery in Padua.
He participates in “L'Altra”, a collective exhibition in the Exhibition Hall of the Municipality of Calderara di Reno (Bologna).
Take part in "Young people in art". Collective Bertolt Brecht Cultural Circle (Milan).
1992 He participates in “Artisti per Jiflek”, collective exhibition Palazzo Re Enzo, Sala del Trecento (Bologna).
1996 Personal exhibition "Contavalli" in Bologna.
1997 Collective exhibition at the “Raggio Verde” Artistic Association (Lecce).
Take part in the "Prima Marguttiana" at the Centro Arte Bo Art Gallery in via d'Azeglio a Bologna.
1998 He takes part in the “Comics and Illustration Exhibition”, at the Baraccano museum halls (Bologna).
Take part in "Kontemporanea" at the Carlo V Castle in Lecce.
1999 Participates in the "First International Biennial of Minigraphy", Pisa.
2011 Participates in the Collective "Spazio San Giorgio" in Bologna.
2015 Finalist of the “Il Segno International Award” at the Palazzo della Racchetta in Ferrara.
THE WROTE ABOUT HIM
“The artist presents recent works that testify to the presence of a graceful research to which he passes from paintings more aimed towards a material with an almost lyrical flavor within which the sign (we would say) secret to others - and they are the last - with an aggressive flavor. Here the matter takes on a greater and decisive violence while the sign (which has become authoritative) ends up coming out of the surfaces, invading the third dimension and solidifying thanks to the use of wire or other.
And it is these last works that we liked the most as we have identified in them a greater compositional freedom combined with an expanding (we would say) unstoppable force. "
Roberto Vitali, art critic, “Mongolfiera”, 9/89
“Mario Pascariello's painting finds its roots in the climate of the 50-60s. Think of Scanavino and the informal and expressionist painting of that period. I seem to see in the last paintings a delusional will aimed at defeating the form. A rough painting, made up of broad gestures, but full of moods; abrupt, but at times courteous and delicate. "
Giovanni D'Agostino, painter and teacher of the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, on the occasion of the Collective "Presenze Giovani dell'Arte" in 1990 at the Bertold Brecht Cultural Circle in Milan in via Padova, 61
"His oil paintings are full of evocative magnetism, his watercolors suggest the observer's gaze, projecting it towards further worlds."
Tommaso MiceliMalaguti, director and writer