7 - Mario Gramaglia (1943)

Mario Gramaglia (1943) Pothos, 2001 Silkscreen print and pastels on paper 60 x 40 cm (print) Signature: “Gramaglia” on the front and back in ink Date: “2001” on the front and back in ink Other inscriptions: edition number “41/50”; “Pothos”; “Elaborate multiple” on the front in ink Provenance: Veneto Banca SpA in LCA Condition. Support: 95% Condition. Surface: 95% For direct WhatsApp assistance before and during the live auction: +39 346 12 999 80 // Direct assistance via WhatsApp before and during the auction: +39 346 12 999 80 A Bulgarian surrealist artist, he graduated from the Sofia Academy of Arts, specializing in design. He worked as a set designer for television and as a screenwriter at the Sliven Theater. After graduating from the Academy, he developed a passion for the surrealism of Salvador Dalí, who greatly influenced him. Before 1989, he worked for “Hemus,” an organization dedicated to exporting Bulgarian works of art abroad. A few months before the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria, during the so-called perestroika, he obtained a tourist passport. At his very first exhibition abroad, in Nîmes, all of his paintings were purchased. In Italy, he was represented by the Sterling Gallery. After moving to Ancona, to Villa Lauri, he began producing a large body of work for the Italian market. Five years later, he returned to Bulgaria, where he devoted himself to teaching art theory, painting, illustration, and performance at New Bulgarian University (Svetoslava Bancheva, “Mikhail Chomakov: I Went to Rome in a Trabant and Became an Artist of the Camorra,” e-vestnik.bg, November 5, 2007).