The Valley G03

Osvaldo Mariscotti is a distinguished printmaker, painter, and sculptor whose prolific career spans over four decades. Internationally recognised for his iconic visual language, Mariscotti’s practice is grounded in a rigorous exploration of perception through the interplay of form and colour. Drawing from the formal vocabulary of Suprematism, particularly the straight line and square, Mariscotti privileges man-made geometry over organic forms. His compositions often emerge through the systematic deconstruction of figures such as the rectangle, reduced to essential coloured lines set against stark black grounds. This process places him firmly within the context of geometric conceptualism: an aesthetic that eschews figuration in favour of abstraction and synthesis, searching for a new visual code through disciplined formal reduction. Works by Mariscotti are held in major private and public collections, including the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.; the UBS Art Collection; the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Maryland; and the Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina. In 2015, Mariscotti participated in Grazie Italia, an exhibition at the Officina delle Zattere in Venice, endorsed by the Pavilion of Grenada and Guatemala of the 56th Venice Biennale, presenting his now-iconic Book of Color I. His work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at leading institutions including the MIIT Museum, Turin; Malzfabrik, Berlin; Chianciano Museum of Art, Chianciano Terme; Galata Museum, Genoa; the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona; Canova Museum, Possagno; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Giuseppe Sciortino, Monreale.