Mario Tessari

Mario Tessari, born in Gorizia (Italy) on May 21st, 1956, is a painter of modern art, portraitist, a fresco painter and a restorer.

He attended the Istituto d’Arte in Gorizia, Italy.

He attended a course on figure drawing and seminars on conservative restoration organized by Beni Culturali at the Accademia of Belle Arti in Venice, Italy, during the Academic Year 1982/1983.
From 1984 to 1986: he collaborates at the Museum of Palazzo “Ricchieri” in Pordenone, Italy, as assistant restorer;
In 1987 starts a period in which he will execute decorations, frescoes, restorations and commissioned paintings in his own for private.

"Tessari had a long training initially in technical pictorial aspects. He has attended the Istituto d’Arte and the Accademia, he has worked as restorer and copyist, he has studied the ancient masters for a long time, he has appropriated several technical secrets, from the encaustic to the fresco. In short, he has been able to go back to the roots of the painting profession. Especially in a series of painting (most of them on paper) dating 1984 he has set up his own way to work on the image. It is difficult to list and motivate all the stylistic references. Anyway, they can be summarized in two directions: on one side, the historical phase of Mannerism of the late XVI century, on the other the Surrealism in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Therefore, the most capricious and acrobatic creations of some mannerists especially from the North (from Arcimboldo to Bosch) are welded with the visionary spectrum of the inventions by Max Ernst and Dali’, up to the American followers in the 1940’s (as De Kooning and Gorky).

The frottage technique by Ernst, as much as the illusionism of Cagli’s “papers”, are ferments, far away in time, of a dream-like inspiration, almost alchemic, in which the painting matter is sublimed."
Rizzi 1989 - read more

“We use art as a mirror of our soul” - says and " he invites us in the universe of his thoughts, through the richness of the details, from the limpid lines to the transparent brilliances, which manifest all his inwardness. ..."
Tomatis 2002 - read more

His painting is " a painting of imprints, larval and mysterious: faces that emerge from the chaos of a nature that feels the effects of an ancient, fabulous humanistic echo. An artist who amazes for his originality and depth."
Rizzi 1990 - read more

"In the artworks by Mario Tessari artistic movements and techniques overlap and intertwine in an exploration that, without excluding anything, collects diverse fruits. ... However, a continuum can be found in the metaphysical and surrealist painting, where the dream-like and unconscious component is privileged, through images that, originated in the fantasy and escapes an immediate control.."
Mariuz 1984 - read more

"The original dream-like quality unravels for a more perfect identification of the human dimension, underlined through a colorful effect, which rises from the oils, through a more extensive elaboration of the basic monochrome, to the fresco technique. In his painting, a solemn visceral quality emerges from the fusion of the architectural frame of Bosch and the transparence of Brueghel..."
Perniola 1985 - read more

This all is Mario Tessari and here is another surprise "in discovering how many special, different solutions, and never related to reality, things have; and anyway how many still unexplored possibilities humans have to approach things in order to discover the ‘true’ identity"
Il Gazzettino 1983 - read more

He is marred and father of three girls. He currently lives and works in Pordenone, Italy.