Mario Padovan ‘s creativity springs from the spirit surrounding the Middle European culture. His personal experience in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, years marked with collective ideals, which saw the birth of innovative experiments together with the leading artists of the Pop Art movement, has influenced his work with an extremely modern concept of visual representation, further consolidating the artistic tradition he had learnt in the Old Continent. Mario Padovan has always anticipated the expressive potential of art, by using forms and signs, which have later become famous worldwide.
The artist lives and works in Rome. He is a painter, sculptor, graphic artist and costume designer, the author of arts information columns in Roman dailies and periodicals, a member of AICA (Association International des Critiques d’Art). His “artistic career” received the support of the poet Umberto Saba, who realized his innovatory potential right from the start (1936-37).

Mario Padovan exhibited his works for the first time in 1959 (Salon de l’Art Libre at the Musé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris). Since he had different phases and experiences, starting with figurative classic style with paintings inspired by the most significant movements of the 20st century, he evolved towards a very personal interpretation of geometric elements which became a specific identification sign in his works.
Mario Padovan held over one hundred individual exhibitions and an equal number of collective exhibitions, his artwork is displayed in various ltalian, European as well as North American museums.

Curicculum:

1960, Roma, participates at the VIIIst Quadriennale Nazionale d'Arte. During the same year, his has his first personal exhibitions in the United States (Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, San Francisco).
1963 he is invited to exhibit at the Abiaz Palace di Theran (Iran) and Saggitarius Gallery in New York.

1972 he exhibits at the 37th Venice Biennale, at the International Film Exhibition “A Tribute to Charlie Chaplin”;
1979 he had an itinerant exhibition in Trieste (Italy) “A Tribute to Albert Einstein”, with texts by Adriano Buzzati Traverso, Italo Federico Quercia, Ruggero Orlando and the artist himself, as well as the participation of Marisa Volpi Orlandini, Bruno d’Amore, Maria Torrente and Maurizio Fagiolo, at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. The event commemorated the centenary of Albert Einstein, at the International Symposium on Non conventional Energy. The same exhibition was displayed at the Teatro Titano, San Marino and then, in 1980, at Palazzo Valentini, where a round table on Einstein was also held organized by the artist, with the participation of Adriano Buzzati Traverso, Italo Federico Quercia, Ruggero Orlando and the Nobel Prize Winner Rita Levi Montalcini;

1981 at Ljubljana (Yugoslavia) he took participated to the 14th Intemational Biennal of Graphic Arts.
1984 he was invited to exhibit at the 46th Venice Biennale the exhibition was presented by Giorgio di Genova. During the same year Mario held an exhibition on the “Praise of Foily”, icons and signs between Pop and Nouveau Réalisme (works 1959-1966) presented by Maria Torrente (at Macerata, Church of Saint Paul Municipal Museum).
1986, Exhibition "Navona Square" presented by Mario Novi (Roma Galleria La Medusa;
1987, "dalla Cappella Sistina” presented by I. Mussa (Viterbo, Roma);
1989, anthological exhibition titled “Poiesis E/O Pictura works 1937-1989” organized by Italo Mussa (at the Complesso Monumentale di San Michele a Ripa, Sala delle Navi, in Rome).

1991: He exhibited in Tokio (Japan) at the Inter Art Club/office, he participates at the exhibition entitled “ Thirty years of Roman avangarde” organized by A. Romani Brizzi and L. Cherubini at the congress centre in Rome. The same exhibition is exposed in 1992 at the museum of the modern Art of Grenoble in France. During that same year he exhibits "A Goal for Sigmund" presented by C. Siniscalco ( Cairo (Egypt) at the Akhanatoonn Art Center)
1992: he is invited to the Universal exhibition in Sevilla (Spain), to participate to the exhibition “Representative artists of Italian contemporary art “ presented by P, Portoghesi and E. M. Eleuteri (Palazzo Italiano delle Arti, Italian Pavillion). Grenoble (Francia), Museo d'Arte Moderna "Trenta anni di avanguardie romane" a cura di A. R. Brizzi e L. Cherubini;

1994 exhibition “Artist’s Books”, Memoria Memorie, with works never exhibited before on the subject of memories and recollections, as part of a research which, although based on the experience of his various periods, differs from it in form and content (Studio 5 - Arte Contemporanea in Rome).

1996, Bagdad (Irak): Mario participates to the VIIIst edition of "Baghdad International Festival for Photography Pictures" dedicated to “ Love & Peace" with a serie of colored photograhs entitled "From China with love" for which he won the International Photography Award.

2000: exhibition “ the wings of god, messengers and warriors with wings between East and West” at Castello Svevo (Bari): following exhibited in Caen- France at the Abbayes aux Dames.

His most recent exhibition in a museum took place in October & November 2000 “Guardian Angel and the angels of Castel Sant’Angelo” (texts from Flavio Caroli, D. Guzzi, Ludovico Pratesi, Mario Lunetta) at the national Museum Castel ant’Angelo. Some of these paintings have been exposed at the VIIIst Biennale of International Art in Cairo 2001 (with an award).