biography

walter mac mazzieri

Walter Mac Mazzieri, painter, engraver and sculptor, was born on 15th April 1947 at Cà d' Olina near Pavullo nel Frignano (Modena), a Medieval village in the Scoltenna valley.

When he was a boy, as his family was very poor, he got a lot of different jobs and lived in a peasant world that was old-minded but rich in fairy tales and legends, in horses and doves. He started drawing, copying comics when he was about 10; then, after moving to Pavullo, he attended the art institute "Adolfo Venturi" in Modena for a short time.

He had his first exhibition when he was 15, his paintings were full of rural realism.

His personality developed towards 1968 also thanks to an exhibition held in Milan in 1971. Since then (while he went on travelling through Europe and Africa and visiting cities and museums) he worked hard, having personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Mazzieri died in Pavullo on 21st November 1998.

The following critics wrote about him: Dino Buzzati, Giuseppe Marchiori, Giancarlo Vigorelli, Renzo Margonari, Enzo Fabiani, Luigi Cavallo, Enrico Crispolti, Vico Faggi, Franco Solmi, Franco Passoni, Paul Kleim, Tommaso Paloscia, Ferruccio Veronesi, Luciano Luisi, Miguel Sertorio, Pedro Fiori, Luigi Lambertini, Irene Ekert, Michele Fuoco, Ferdinando Albertazzi, Felix Ferrer Gimeno, Bruno Cernaz, Graziano Manni, Peter Treutler, Casimiro Bettelli....

biography

walter mac mazzieri