Mario Ceroli - The Expulsion

Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, under the guidance of Leoncillo Leonardi and Pericle Fazzini, he initially reproduced ceramic sculptures. In the 1960s, influenced by Pop Art through the works of Louise Nevelson and Joe Tilson, he arrived at the materials and forms that would later characterize his creations: silhouettes of objects shaped in wood, devoid of color, sometimes repeated in series (The Last Supper, 1965, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome; Leonardo's Man, 1964; China, 1966), connected to a space that becomes an essential theme (Cassa Sistina, 1966), or traced in tempera and ink (The Door, the Last Supper, 1981; Day, Night, 1982). In 1967-1968 he took part in the exhibitions of the Arte Povera group. In 1988, he created the so-called "House of Neptune" in Bologna, a wooden container decorated with the silhouette of the Floating Man, which served as the restoration site for Giambologna's bronze statue of Neptune. His is the Winged Unicorn (1990), made of gold-covered wood, exhibited at the entrance to the RAI headquarters in Saxa Rubra. He oversaw the furnishings of the church of Porto Rotondo (1971), of Santa Maria Madre del Redentore in Tor Bella Monaca, in Rome, in 1987, and of San Carlo Borromeo at the Centro Direzionale in Naples, in 1990. He also carried out an intense activity as a set designer, collaborating with the Teatro Stabile in Turin (set design for Shakespeare's Richard III, 1968) and with La Scala in Milan (set design for Vincenzo Bellini's Norma). His sculptures frequently reference famous works of the past, such as those of Leonardo, whose drawings of the "Vitruvian Man" (Disequilibrium, 1967) and The Last Supper (painted wood, 1981) he paraphrased with his woodcuts. In 1997, he donated a copy of the wooden sculpture The Vitruvian Man to his hometown, Castel Frentano, and placed it in the Piazzale della Concezione. In 2007, he was invited by the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome to participate in its official reopening, after many years of renovations, with a selection of his major works. In 2008, the Siena city council entrusted him with painting the banner for the Palio of August 16th, dedicated to the Madonna Assunta and won by the Contrada del Bruco, featuring the jockey Giuseppe Zedde, known as "Gingillo," and the horse Elisir Logudoro.

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