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Mario Bardi (Palermo, 1922 – Milan, 1998) was a painter and draftsman. In 1951 he graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. During his formative years he won a prize for painting at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts Academies (Rome 1950) and a scholarship for young artists offered as a prize by the Region of Sicily. He moved to Aosta and then began a career in Italy and abroad. In his works, the protagonists are the humble, figures portrayed with a strong appearance, a metaphor for a difficult life, full of toil and suffering.
Since the mid-sixties through his painting he conveys the contents of the complaint and social criticism, representing massacres and tragedies of his homeland, Sicily, and the horrors of the contemporary conflicts. In the following decade he undertook the series of “Viceré”, the Inquisitors, the Cardinals, symbols of an oppressive system not so obvious and explicitly denounced as in previous works, but more subtle and poisonous. In 1993, the Region of Sicily dedicated him a major exhibition at the Albergo dei Poveri in Palermo.