About Maximo Damico

Italian watercolorist Maximilian Damico paints primarily on location. He observes city sidewalks and intersections, looking for not the most famous scenes but the most interesting. With quick, lively brushstrokes, Maximilian captures the energy and mood of cities whether in the rain, gloom, or rush hour. The frenetic quality of city life doesn’t detract from the beauty of each scene. Maximilian’s gestural technique instead infuses liveliness in each artwork, a liveliness that makes being in a big city a never-ending thrill.  PROCESS: I usually work on location, just sometimes I do several sketches of the same theme alive as demos and then I go to complete the same theme in the studio: most of the time I do a painting one going one. I do not mind about famous sight seen, but I prefer walk and enjoy the atmosphere of some place to find out an aesthetic details or an interesting game shadow/light.  Basically I approach the painting with a separate palette warm and cold colour, the contrast lets have an interesting three-dimensional and plastic effect; I try every time to move the brush as fast as I can, to catch the movement,  that I am seeing in reality, on the paper...that lets the painting get the energy and the vibrations  that I am constantly looking for in my style; I can use a very wet paper and brush full of water sometimes I use very dry colour. I never use very tiny size brushes for small details...but I am interested in the big block of masses, their contrasts make the beauty in a painting. BIO: I was born in south Italy, and took courses of painting in Academy of Fine Arts in Naples; after the Fine Art 'Diploma', I left south Italy to have broader contact with the international Art scene, following  different routes: as Barcelona, London, Paris, New York and Prague: where I maturated my own style made by semi abstract elements and expressionist executions and techniques.  I spent 5 years in this kind of wandering life, always looking for areas of visibility, collaboration and contracts with Art Galleries. Meanwhile I was achieving and accomplishing a good number of success, has grown in me the germ of dissatisfaction: an awful virus in a mind of an Artist. For this reason I went back to my own village in Italy on Amalfi Coast, to dig in myself: where after a while, I applied for a Watercolor art contest. Never tried this technique, but immediately I fell in love with the medium: The Watercolor has twisted my interior world and changed the way how to look at the external world, a gorgeous feeling that gave me the final push to convey my energies in the fluid world of the Watercolor!
Education:  Academy of Fine Arts Naples/Milan 2000-2005. 

Exhibitions:

2024 Canvas Group Show Amalfi Coast

2023 Gallery 23 Open Art group show in Prague

2023 International Group Show in Mash Gallery, Go Loco, Los Angeles

2023 IWS in Florida, biennial in ArtCenter Manatee
2022 IWS CHILE, group watercolor show in Santiago de Chile 
2022 Featured in The London Reader: London Lost Stories in a Changing City

2022 Mall Galleries London, Royal Society of Watercolour Annual Exhibition 

2021 Parallax Art Fair, Kensington Town Hall, London.

2020 Artists of the Year winner, for annual SAA Artists Year competition, Newark, UK.

2020 “Love, Tolerance and Peace ” Watercolor Festival, İzmir, Turkey.

2020 Mall Galleries London, Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition

2019 Emozioni in Mostra, group show , Naples - Italia-

2019 IWS Indonesia’s watercolour exhibition in Nusa Dua, Bali.

2019 IWS International Watercolor Festival in Peru

2018 Intenational Symposium in Struga, Macedonia

2018 Exhibition "Nur kelbetti Astana" in the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2017 CAP project Show , Canvas Art Gallery, Melbourne - Australia 
2017 New Jorg Gallery, group exhibition , Antwerp-Belgium
2017 Contemporary Vision 7 group exhibition, Beers  London Gallery
2016 Featured in Artoo Arts Visibility, Kaohsiung - Taiwan
2015 International show " Luz" Liuwke Loth Art Gallery, Malaga-Spain 2014 Awarded Symposium Galerie an der Donau, in Poechlarn, Vienna-Austria 2013 Ecklenburg Gallery, DC Baltimore, NY 2012 ArtSawa Gallery, DUBAI 2011 National Library, PRAGUE 2010 Infantellina contemporary Gallery, BERLIN 2009 Wannieck Gallery in BRNO: international group 2007 Brick Lane Gallery in LONDON: international group "Art in Mind" 2006 Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery in NEW YORK 2006 Library Bliss in BROOKLIN, NY 2006 Cincomonos Galeria in BARCELONA