From his father, a construction painter,
Mario Picardo inherited a taste for construction material, that he favours over
the one used for fine arts, and a certain predilection for rigour. During the
time he spent in his father’s truck, a true travelling studio, he developed a
liking for the optimisation and recycling of both materials and spaces.
The urban environment is a source of daily
inspiration for Mario Picardo. There, he films, photographs, and collects
traces of our society that he stores in a library of signs and shapes: the many
drawings filling quantities of notebooks. It is from these plentiful harvests
that Picardo, influenced by semiology, American painting, and 90s pop culture,
paints.
