“... The worker approaches and studies any organic matter with the secret hope of cloning his image and resemblance, his convictions, his thought and all that allows the approached matter to live, to return to live eternally, because now it’s about art…”
(Glauco LENDARO CAMILESS,1988)
“... Halfway between immaginable reality and the disturbing presence of the dream, the plastic creations of Mazzilli repropose the torment of inventing a new monumentality, to express himslef with the appropriation of the available spaces to dedicate them to the formal “uncreated”. Resulting from this is a lesson of consistency and of obstinate trust in his own world of aspiration and subjugation of matter…”
(Franco SILVESTRI, 1983)
“...The reference to the figure is a symptomatic datum of the search of Mazzilli who
draws from the existential phenomenon to evict the various ideal components, more than the movements suitable to give shape to the materials, defining the presences with a strong suggestion.”
(Elite, 1989)
“... He has set out, for a long time, among the stones of the “Murgia”. And the stones able to offer a shape, or a sculptor, or an illusion, “he” finds them... He finds them on our Murgia and starts caressing them as if they were some authentic jewels. They are stones. Preferably white, of a marmoreal white. Preferably smooth, so the “caress” notices no obstacle. And also without edges. But with one of their continuities which suggests a line, a shape, a figure. Mimmo Mazzilli can “read” them, and he can “interpret” them.”
(Pietro De Giosa)
“... Abbandoned the figurative forms, the artist finds a new expressive vigour in the informal plasticity of the matter (bronze, stone, terraccotta). At the vitality of some works he opposes in others, a formal abstraction which proceed taking some signs away and decantation of the matter... “
(Anna D'Elia - from “La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno” the 6th of May 1983)
“... But he isn’t interested in the total abstraction of the form, in his sculptures the figure is still represented in its essence, because for Domenico man is the central mainstay of the very same existence.”
(Addolorata CAGNAZZO, 1988)
“... I wouldn’t be able to bring his work near to that of any other sculptor I have ever known. Mazzilli’s sculptors are in bronze, in stone, in plaster. Images which come from much afar. The artist must have gone down into the necropolises, he must have visited the archeological excavations, the museums where one can see the mummies still wrapped tightly in their bands...I have seen a the plaster face of a man tightly wrapped in shrouds which transform him in a mask between the tragic and the nightmare. It could be Socrates, or even a self-portrait. Mazzilli is perhaps above all a philosopher.”
(Renzo Guasco)
“... There’s no doubt that Domenico Mazzilli unites the chosen material, be it plaster, marble, bronze, with the merciless excavation in the bowels of his characters, on their faces and on their bodies in which one may clearly read all that boils inside.”
(Aldo Spinardi from "Spazio Ovest" december 1989)
F. BALLERO
R. BOCCACINI
A. CAGNAZZO
G. CAMILLES LENDARO
M. CAMPIONE
M. CHIEPPA
V. CRACAS
P. DE GIOSA
G. DELGADO
A. D’ELIA
R. GUASCO
F. MANNARINI
R. NIGRO
M. PIERGIOVANNI
L. SEBASTIO
F. SILVESTRI
A. SPAGNESI
A. SPINARDI
N. TULLO
G. TUROLA
(Glauco LENDARO CAMILESS,1988)
“... Halfway between immaginable reality and the disturbing presence of the dream, the plastic creations of Mazzilli repropose the torment of inventing a new monumentality, to express himslef with the appropriation of the available spaces to dedicate them to the formal “uncreated”. Resulting from this is a lesson of consistency and of obstinate trust in his own world of aspiration and subjugation of matter…”
(Franco SILVESTRI, 1983)
“...The reference to the figure is a symptomatic datum of the search of Mazzilli who
draws from the existential phenomenon to evict the various ideal components, more than the movements suitable to give shape to the materials, defining the presences with a strong suggestion.”
(Elite, 1989)
“... He has set out, for a long time, among the stones of the “Murgia”. And the stones able to offer a shape, or a sculptor, or an illusion, “he” finds them... He finds them on our Murgia and starts caressing them as if they were some authentic jewels. They are stones. Preferably white, of a marmoreal white. Preferably smooth, so the “caress” notices no obstacle. And also without edges. But with one of their continuities which suggests a line, a shape, a figure. Mimmo Mazzilli can “read” them, and he can “interpret” them.”
(Pietro De Giosa)
“... Abbandoned the figurative forms, the artist finds a new expressive vigour in the informal plasticity of the matter (bronze, stone, terraccotta). At the vitality of some works he opposes in others, a formal abstraction which proceed taking some signs away and decantation of the matter... “
(Anna D'Elia - from “La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno” the 6th of May 1983)
“... But he isn’t interested in the total abstraction of the form, in his sculptures the figure is still represented in its essence, because for Domenico man is the central mainstay of the very same existence.”
(Addolorata CAGNAZZO, 1988)
“... I wouldn’t be able to bring his work near to that of any other sculptor I have ever known. Mazzilli’s sculptors are in bronze, in stone, in plaster. Images which come from much afar. The artist must have gone down into the necropolises, he must have visited the archeological excavations, the museums where one can see the mummies still wrapped tightly in their bands...I have seen a the plaster face of a man tightly wrapped in shrouds which transform him in a mask between the tragic and the nightmare. It could be Socrates, or even a self-portrait. Mazzilli is perhaps above all a philosopher.”
(Renzo Guasco)
“... There’s no doubt that Domenico Mazzilli unites the chosen material, be it plaster, marble, bronze, with the merciless excavation in the bowels of his characters, on their faces and on their bodies in which one may clearly read all that boils inside.”
(Aldo Spinardi from "Spazio Ovest" december 1989)
F. BALLERO
R. BOCCACINI
A. CAGNAZZO
G. CAMILLES LENDARO
M. CAMPIONE
M. CHIEPPA
V. CRACAS
P. DE GIOSA
G. DELGADO
A. D’ELIA
R. GUASCO
F. MANNARINI
R. NIGRO
M. PIERGIOVANNI
L. SEBASTIO
F. SILVESTRI
A. SPAGNESI
A. SPINARDI
N. TULLO
G. TUROLA
Mazzilli and Mass Media
Information and articles about him have been published/broadcasted by:
Eco d’arte, Elite 1989, Il Messaggero, Il Resto del Cardino, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, La Gazzetta di Ferrara, La Nazione, La Stampa, La Voce, Lo Stradone, Meridiano Sud, Nuovo Confronto, Pensiero ed Arte, Puglia nel Mondo, Spazio Ovest.
Rai 3, Telenorba, Telebari, TRA.
Eco d’arte, Elite 1989, Il Messaggero, Il Resto del Cardino, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, La Gazzetta di Ferrara, La Nazione, La Stampa, La Voce, Lo Stradone, Meridiano Sud, Nuovo Confronto, Pensiero ed Arte, Puglia nel Mondo, Spazio Ovest.
Rai 3, Telenorba, Telebari, TRA.
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