Mario Cossu

Artist - Italy

1950 Mario Cossu was born on July.

1964 Since he was a child he loves drawing and painting.

1977-1978 Collective exhibitions in Rome “Anna Pane” Foundation, the “Citta Eterna” Gallery and others, some prizes, the Absolutely First Prize at the Tevere Expo’ 1978.

1978-2007 He drew comics and has worked as illustrator.

1997 Again collective exhibitions of paintings: Castellazzo (2 at the Gallery Gamondo), Piovera (3 at the Cultural Center “Il Gufo”), Frugarolo (2 with “Ars Italica.com”), Lucca (Associazione Rinascimento), Rome (International Academy Modern Art:Medusa Aurea Trophy).

2000 First one man exhibition: Centro Artistico Tortonese, in Tortona.

2003 His father Antonio, engineer, was a famous restorer of monuments in Rome and Latium. He worked for more than 30 years to the maintenance and repair of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Rome. Here Mario took part in the Biennial of Contemporary Art that Prof. Giancarlo Alu organized in onour of the painter Ippolito Caffi, Garibaldi’s soldier.

2004-2005 He exhibited at the Gallery “Ars Italica” next to Piazza Duomo in Milan. Between 2005 and 2006 five paintings of his were shown for two months in the hall of Plaza Hotel in the center of Milan.

2006 He joined to 2 collective exhibitions at the “New Ars Italica” Gallery in via De Amicis.

February 2006 On the magazine “Arte”(Cairo Editore) an article was titled “The hyperrealism of Mario Cossu”. Mario is selected by the Scientific Commitee of the Catalogue Arte 2006 by Giorgio Mondadori Editore and won a Merit Degree at the “Premio Arte 2006”.

January 2007 He was selected and exhibited at the Premio Open Art 2007, in the Sala Bramante in piazza del Popolo in Rome, with the patronage of Municipality, Province of Rome and Regione Latium.

October 2007 He took part with a one-man exhibition to the Four Years of Contemporary Art “Leonardo da Vinci – Artists in the History”, at the Fatherland’s Altar in Rome. Honour Degree dedicated by the Municipality of Rome, Province of Rome and Regione Latium.

October 2007 His oil on board “High Bergamo under snow” won a Merit Diploma at “Premio Arte 2007” and was published on september 2007 issue of the magazine “Arte”. Soon the Thomas Charles’s Gallery in Phoenix (Arizona) will host his paintings for an one-man itinerant exhibition.