The Painter of Vortices
Painter, writer, poet and playwright. Founder of the Radical Introversic Art Movement.
Maurizio D'Andrea, professional name of Mauro D'Andrea, is an Italian painter, writer and author of theatre monologues, born in 1967 in San Giorgio a Cremano, in the province of Naples, and based in Alba, Piedmont.
His abstract painting is rooted in psychoanalytic thought, from Freud and Jung to Lacan, and is marked by a recurring, distinctive form: the vortex. He is the founder of the Radical Introversic Art Movement and Cultural Manager of Carthago Arte.
He received the Golden Lion at the Venice Triennale in 2024 and the Grand Prix Excellence Saint Germain des Prés at the Sorbonne in 2026. In 2026 one of his paintings was exhibited for three days at the National Pavilion of Grenada, 61st Venice Art Biennale.
A geology graduate with honours, specialising in volcanology, he turned his scientific background into a radical artistic vision: to investigate the invisible, to give form to what words cannot hold. Painter, writer, poet, playwright, software creator, art teacher, curator: a total artist.
«My path can be summed up in four states: creative extrapolation, research, experimentation and humility.»
Twenty recent paintings, all acrylic on canvas. The vortex reaching for a centre it never attains, desire, lack. Tap a work to see it large.
Spinte introversicheIntroversic ThrustsAcrylic on canvas, 100 × 100 cm, 2026
DesiderioDesireAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2026
Dove io mancoWhere I Am MissingAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2026
La mancanzaLackAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2026
Le forze della mancanzaThe Forces of LackAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2026
Il tempo del rossoThe Time of RedAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2026
Tempo e solitudineTime and SolitudeAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2026
Terra generatriceGenerative EarthAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2026
AscoltoListeningAcrylic on canvas, 50 × 50 cm, 2025
Caos generatoreGenerative ChaosAcrylic on canvas, 50 × 50 cm, 2025
Scena in movimentoScene in MotionAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2025
Veleno e curaPoison and CureAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2025
Istinti repressiRepressed InstinctsAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2024
SOS PsicheSOS PsycheAcrylic on canvas, 100 × 100 cm, 2024
Esisto dentroI Exist WithinAcrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2024
Doppia totalitàDouble TotalityAcrylic on canvas, 50 × 50 cm, 2024
Mi.R bb69Acrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2024
Mi.R bb70Acrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2024
Mi.R bb71Acrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 cm, 2024
Mi.R bb18Acrylic on canvas, 100 × 100 cm, 2022
Lyrical-informal abstraction and contemporary abstract expressionism. A gestural, spontaneous technique in the wake of the New York School: Pollock, Rothko, Motherwell. Canvases painted with hands, rags, brushes and palette knives, where symbols of the collective unconscious surface.
The recurring vortex in the upper right corner is an impulse towards new horizons and a descent into the unconscious. The dialectic between vital red and dark tones. Porous cement sculptures act as three-dimensional holograms of the paintings.
In 2024 D'Andrea painted live on the back of international singer Silvia Tancredi, in a body-painting performance carried out in real time. The work became the cover of her single “Life as Art”, documented in the music video.
Maurizio D'Andrea's painting “Cammino” (The Path) is the cover of “Chi uccide racconta”, the crime novel by writer Mauro Rivetti published by Golem Edizioni.
Alongside painting, D'Andrea works as a digital artist with a range of techniques: images made with a graphics tablet and dedicated software, generative art, artificial intelligence, fractals and Voronoi diagrams.
Computers do not produce art, not yet, and they do not dream. These are human processes, bound to each person's culture, body, psychology and life. A machine can apply the brushstrokes and styles of great painters to an original creation, or search for images with given features by processing large amounts of data: our perception of the world remains our own.
It is art that generates art: the code produces the work, and there is art in knowing how to write it. Technology serves art, not the other way round; the work comes from an idea, not from software. Black and white sketches where the code is the pen and the artist is the mind: urban and virtual landscapes, always full of energy and movement. This is where Artetc comes from, D'Andrea's original software for code-based compositions, fusions of shapes, lines and arcs.
Fractals are a digital art form born from mathematical formulas: processed by a program, they produce images of an astonishing variety of complex forms, colour and light.
An artist must always experiment, seek new emotions and new styles, have doubts and never certainties. In mathematics a Voronoi diagram divides space by distance from a set of points: a geometry that becomes an emotional story.
Radical Introversic Art Movement
Founded in Turin in 2022 at Galleria Accorsi Arte, the Radical Introversic Art Movement defends the purity of inner life in art, encourages collaboration and stands against aesthetic conformism and the pressures of the market.
The Movement places at its centre the visceral, direct relationship between artist, work and viewer: a dialogue that goes beyond the surface of the image and reaches the core of the psyche. Introversism as the supremacy of pure inner life, compositional rigour without exception, in response to a digital metaverse that threatens to erase our identity.
Essays and stories published by Carthago Edizioni, Kimerik and Youcanprint. Each book grows out of the meeting of social reflection, artistic experience, psychological training and philosophical thought on the creative process.
Titles are in Italian.
Carthago Edizioni, Unconscious, doubt and artistic creation
Doubt as the generative engine of the work of art. Uncertainty as a fundamental condition of creation, not an obstacle.
Carthago Edizioni, Studies and reflections on the unconscious as a stage
The work of art as an event that takes place in the psyche. The unconscious as the invisible stage of the drama of creation.
Youcanprint, “I like your works but I don't understand them!”
D'Andrea's abstract art, with the study of the psyche at the centre of everything. An ironic title about the pressure towards “safer”, more conventional choices.
Carthago Edizioni, by Antonio Castellana
A critical essay by art historian Antonio Castellana devoted entirely to D'Andrea, “painter of the unconscious in action”, far from the drifts of conventional abstraction.
Kimerik Edizioni
An irreverent, engaging text whose story revolves around neurosis.
Audible, Amazon
The story of Carlo, a homeless man in Turin, between depression and hardship.
Author of hundreds of published poems. The poetic word as a tool for inner excavation, a parallel way of “painting the invisible”.
Themes: inner freedom, generative solitude, love, absence, the search for oneself. Intense, at times hermetic verse, rich in the same Jungian symbolism that feeds the painting. Recent collections include Rimango qui seduto a guardare le vie di fuga (I Remain Seated Here Watching the Escape Routes) and several other books on Amazon.
I am a man of art and madness.
In my mind I hold dreams of infinity,
I will never feel alone!
Original theatre monologues collected on the virtual platform “Oggi a Teatro”. A language that blends philosophy, analytical psychology, irony and poetry: inquiries into the human soul that open cracks in everyday reality.
Naples, 1868. A postman falls in love with a stone and is locked away in a sanatorium. The madness of normality and “Orwellian Digital Phrenology”.
The darkest loneliness: the kind that erodes self-esteem in the age of social media, where shallow connections replace real encounters.
A minimalist swept away by the mysterious Jessica. Digital illusion, reality and ever more blurred boundaries.
The protagonist slashes a white canvas, bringing the Jungian shadow to light. The courage to truly look at oneself.
Against the cult of beauty: fragility and the “ugly” as a territory of truth and transformation. Nietzsche, Freud, Jung.
Marco asks an artificial intelligence to interpret a dream. On the border between human emotion and machine.
Four acts on freedom, from a crossword puzzle to the truce of 1914, when enemies chose brotherhood.
Theatre, music and painting in a single emotional journey about freedom. Original paintings on stage alongside a monologue, song, solo voices and piano.
Performed in Alba (Church of San Domenico, March 2025), Borgaro Torinese, San Germano Chisone and Turin (Fondazione Giubileo, March 2026), praised by audiences and critics and widely covered by Gazzetta d'Alba, La Voce di Alba and social media. Sold out in June 2026. Coming to schools, with integrated learning programmes.
with Alessio Negro, international actor
A Monologue of Introversic Civic Observation, staged on Saturday 6 June 2026 at the municipal hall of Montelupo Albese (CN) to a full house and a long closing ovation. A hybrid show, suspended between philosophy and physical theatre: the text starts from the removal of Einstein's brain in 1955 and arrives at the present, at social media, digital narcissism and an unconscious drowned in notifications. D'Andrea speaks, Negro stays silent: he acts not with words but with his body, pure presence.
Drimmarte is Maurizio D'Andrea's own creation: he conceived, designed and directs it. A free platform of art news and digital “art pills”, short, deep and accessible pieces on art, creativity and the unconscious. Art as democratic nourishment, not a privilege of the few.
Another of D'Andrea's creations: a website of free web tools for artists. Prepare photos of artworks for print and social media, write captions, put together a catalogue, set up a virtual exhibition, create an audio guide with QR labels. The tools store nothing: images stay in the user's own browser.
Teacher of painting, digital art and generative AI applied to artistic creation: four courses at CPIA Alba from 2021 to 2025. In class: acrylic painting, palette knives and unconventional tools, GIMP, graphics tablets, JavaScript and p5.js. His students won a national ministerial competition open to every CPIA in Italy. Speaker in teacher training on digital art and AI in education.
Art curator for ASL CN2 of “Art a-Mare”, a student competition linked to the event “One Health: a Healthy Planet” at the Michele e Pietro Ferrero Hospital in Verduno (CN). Art, health and community joined in a creative reflection on collective wellbeing.
Exhibited in Italy, Europe, the United States and Asia. Formerly represented by Agora Gallery, New York, and featured in leading national and international art catalogues and magazines.
The work Esisto dentro (I Exist Within; 2024, acrylic and acrylic markers on canvas, 60 × 60 cm) was shown for three days in the Grenada Pavilion. On 11 August 2026 at Spazio Berlendis, Cannaregio 6301/A, the critical conversation with a text by Chiara Corrado.
A selection of the articles, interviews and reviews devoted to Maurizio D'Andrea in Italy and abroad. It is only part of what has been published.
International awards, solo and group exhibitions in Italy, Europe, the United States and Asia. The star marks the most important awards and events.
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