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.