Walter Mazzarella

Visual Art – Los Angeles

Walter Mazzarella was born in 1980 in Mirano, Italy, a small town near Venice. Deeply drawn to sketching and the arts throughout his childhood, he began his scholastic art training at the Liceo Artistico Statale di Venezia in 1994. After studying at the Fine Art Academy of Venice he attended the University of Bologna where he was awarded his degree in Art Disciplines in 2005. In 2007 Walter won the EstArte Award. Shortly thereafter he joined with four other up and coming artists to form the 5+1 Art Studio. It was during this time at 5+1 that Walter found “fragments”. Fragments was born of 10 years of Walters work, some pieces unfinished, some forgotten. It was then, looking at this potential, that he picked up a knife and started to deconstruct this body of work. Sacrificing it so that it could be reborn. All the labors of his previous expression became victim to this newfound form of raw beauty. It was this rebirth by destruction in order to reconstruct that became the true vision. “It is a personal Renaissance… an intimate transmutation of the past, present and future… as you actively tear the numerous visual declarations that mirror your identity and proactively reshape them into a new expression.” Fragments are an expression of the chaotic presence of lights, colors, sounds, music, and words that finds its final shape as harmonious structures of colors. As waves, their movement follows a rhythm closely connected to the natural beat of life. (Visual symphonies) This body of works has been showcased from february 8th to march 1st 2011 at One Cog Gallery, 211 West 5th Street, Los Angeles.