Mauro Bellucci

Industrial Pollution is a series that Mauro Bellucci has carried out for 7 years ca. in a period when, even though the media had already elicited some kinds of awareness, pollution was not a greatly debated problem in most countries. The artist undertook this theme using colors that reflected the gray of pollution (the paintings of the first five years were dichromate, all with gray and blue tones). Although the artist considers himself a colorist painter, in this early phase of the series he eliminated almost all colors, and only last year he went back prominently to his natural proneness with a stylistic shift. In this last phase, he arrived at a genre called hybrid, in which geometrical abstraction prevails (referring to Piet Mondrian’s partition of space) adding a figurative floral part. This is the reason that his painting is defined hybrid. The flora expresses that even though mankind inflicts an almost mortal wound to it, nature will eventually prevail on the human atrocity and will take back its place on the planet.