Biography
Mauro Patrini was born in Pizzighettone in 1965, where he has always lived and worked.
He has never attended academies or artistic lessons of any kind, but since the Eighties he becomes fond of art and especially of painting.
He experiments traditional forms but he is unsatisfied: so he decides to leave this reality and he looks for new forms.
He attends the Centro Europeo di Formazione degli Artigiani per la Conservazione del Patrimonio Architettonico in Venice and he learns different techniques, such as fresco and scagliola.
During the following fifteen years he works for very important commissions such as the restauration of Palazzo Carmi in Parma, the flooring in scagliola of the Coffee House in the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, the restauration of the coat of arms of the Lancellotti House at Christie's in Rome and other important works in public and private buildings; in particular, in the USA, Peter Marino, well-known Newyorker architect, offers him the realization of imponent decorations in a private house in Palm Beach, Florida.
Then, he collaborates at the restauration of the Tiepolo in the church of SS. Faustino and Giovita in Brescia.
He becomes a teacher of scagliola at the Centro Europeo per i Mestieri della Conservazione “Pro Venezia Viva” in Venice and at the Villa Fabbris Foundation in Thiene.
The experience as a craftsman involves for Patrini the knowledge and the experimentation of plastic materials that can better answer his artistic requirements.
So since 2004 he resumes the activity he had bitterly left twenty years before and he proposes conceptual art works.
Nowadays he is living and working in Italy and his works belong to many of the most important collections.
