Mary A. Decuzzi

SHORT BIO

 

    Mary is a collage artist from Hurlingham - Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has a degree in Arts (University of Buenos Aires) and for years she has worked in the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires in the production of festivals and events for the most important arts, music & cultural venues: Usina del Arte, Teatro Colón, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, Museos BA, among others.

 

    As a fan of trends, in 2016 she attended the Cross-Discipline Trend Forecasting course at Central Saint Martins College in London. That same year she personally assisted the American photographer David Lachapelle during his visit to Buenos Aires on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Photographs 1984-2013" and his collage art work "Make love, not war" for the clothing brand Diesel.

 

    Mary currently works in marketing, also writes and develops content for @futurismica_lab, a platform to inspire creatives and think about the future of the arts.

 

MANIFESTO

 I love the summer, the sea, green landscapes, big cities and the countryside too. Botanical gardens and tropical mood. Old, vintage, retro, new, kitsch and camp vibes. Sandwiches and biographies. The '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. Op, conceptual art and the avant-garde. Walk, dance and not run. Family, friends, my labrador and my Dutch dwarf rabbit. “Blow up” by Antonioni and “Just Kids” by Patti Smith. Duchamp, Warhol and Lachapelle. Photo albums and cassettes. The false and the true. Jem and The Nanny. Big tables, red wine and kisses. More nature. Sunglasses and Christmas lights. Poetry from Pablo Neruda and Alfonsina Storni. Strawberries and salads. Marta Minujín, Delia Cancela and Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos. Mary Quant and Westwood. Jeans, big t-shirts, boots and inline skating. Godard, Agnès Varda, Scorsese, Almodóvar and Wong Kar Wai. Italian gelato. Divididos y Las Pelotas. Man Ray and Schiaparelli. Tracey Emin and Linder Sterling. Tea, naps in the sun, colours and stories told by grandparents. Red lipstick, maneki-neko cats and snow globes. Talking, laughing, travelling and love transformations. 

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WHY CUT & PASTE?

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    "Since I was a child I have always been obsessed with magazines, colours, bright paper and saturated tones. My grandmothers used to buy magazines and my eyes always went into them. During my teens, I used to buy music magazines and even steal them from the dentist's waiting room. By then, my room was wrapped to the ceiling with paper and postcards. Walls were a huge collage, in those walls of rebellion I learned the technique and I realised the enjoyment of sticking paper."

 

    "Collage for me is democratic and pop, is the kind of art that frees me. I use fashion, art, decor & gardening magazines, shiny stuff, textured, special papers and sometimes fabrics. "

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