L'ultima cena (1965) by Mario CeroliLa Galleria Nazionale
In a solo exhibition at the Galleria La Tartaruga in 1966, the artwork was purchased at the price of 600,000 lire in the same year, together with others by young artists of the period such as Adami, Del Pezzo, Castellani, Pascali, Costa, Kunellis and Colombo.
Ultima cena (1965) by Mario CeroliLa Galleria Nazionale
After encountering informal and pop art, in the 1960s Ceroli began to create wooden figures and objects that he covered, sometimes with only a resin.
Right from the start wood was the medium privileged in the artist’s production. The boards were left raw and unfinished, arranged in joined and juxtaposed positions.
L'ultima cena (1965) by Mario CeroliLa Galleria Nazionale
The use of wood in its “primary” state corresponds to a reduction of the human figure from a three-dimensional presence to the consistency of a silhouette:
the uniqueness of the frontal presentation is lost to the anonymity of the profile.
