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Biography / Personal Statement

"I believe that the work of an artist betrays his desire to make use of imagination to recreate the world in which we all live. I also believe that without a vision and the urgency to express it there is no great art.

Now it seems to me that my works hint at a desire to recreate a world where everything, every person as well as every situation, could perfectly fall in the realm either of reality or unreality. How to achieve a sort of pleasant harmony out of this dualism is one of the greatest challenge of my work. No need to say that in the field of visual art the main concerns are about colour, space, proportion, volume etc., but a good amount of irony and intellectual considerations need also to be taken on account.

Not surprisingly once the works are finished it is difficult even for me to penetrate them or to explain their exact meaning. To be honest I am always happy with the result of my work when a new sense of mystery has managed to displace all the previous certainty."

Mario Sughi, Dublin, 2010

Exhibitions & Shows

  • Skull. Return to sender
  • Italy
  • 16 IX 2008 - 25 X 2008
  • Group Show

Wannabee Gallery, Milan

  • Mario Sughi
  • Italy
  • 16 X 2008 - 20 XI 2008
  • Solo Show

Doz Gallery Milan, Italy

  • A touch of freedom
  • Belgium
  • 1 IX 2009 - 30 IX 2009
  • Solo Show

Gallerie Rubens, Brussels, Belgium

  • Sexy
  • Holland
  • 10 XII 2009 - 16 I 2010
  • Group Show

Erotic Musem Amsterdam, Holland

  • 5 to 9
  • USA
  • 2 I 2009 - 3 II 2009
  • Group Show

Umber Studios, Minneapolis, USA

  • Offset 2009
  • Ireland
  • 4 XI 2009 - 11 XI 2009
  • Group Show

Solus Bar, Dublin, Ireland

Experience

  • Computer Graphic
  • MGL
  • 1999 - 2008
  • Ireland

Designing the web and layout reports for a Company of Archaeologists in Dublin Ireland

Education

  • PhD
  • TCD
  • Ireland
  • 1990 - 1995

Department of Medieval History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Further Info

Mario Sughi is an Italian artist and illustrator living and working in Dublin. He is a member of  the IGI (Illustrators Guild of Ireland) and AI (Associazione Illustratori Italiani) and the author of nerosunero.

 

In Rome, at the end of the seventies, he worked as humorist in Italian satirical magazines Il Male and  Zut.

 

He moved to Dublin in the late eighties where he studied Medieval History and in 1995 he was awarded a PhD by Trinity College Dublin.

 

His illustrations and cartoons, satirical in humour and minimalist in style have been published in international exhibition catalogues ( Offf Barcelona 2007, Semi permanent, Sidney 2008, Ink 01 International Illustration Rally, Bilbao 2008); magazines (3x3 Mag / New York, Shift Calendar 2010 / Tokyo, The Dubliner/Dublin, Clam Magazine / Paris - New York, Ideafixa/Brazil, Fluro Magazine / New Zeland), websites ( Juxtapoz, Paintalicious, Yay! Monday! Evilmonito, Design Milk) and art galleries (Sexy Art Gallery, London&Amsterdam, The Shiny Squirrel Gallery, NY; Little Paper Airplanes, Los Angeles; Umber Studios, Minneapolis; 180 Gallery Cambridge, Ontario; Wannabee and DOZ Gallery, Milan; Irish Art House, Tullamore and The Loft, Dublin, Ireland, Turn-Berlin, Germany)

 

LÜrzer's Archive included Mario Sughi in their compilation "200 best illustrators worldwide 2009”.

Mario’s work features on  the 2010 Annual of Italian Illustrators.