{"title":"Mauro Viale","description":"\u003cp\u003eMauro Viale is a Queenstown-based artist whose practice brings together traditional printmaking, collage and a visual language shaped by architecture and early modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in an artistic and architectural family, Viale spent much of his childhood in his grandparents’ studio. Surrounded by art and design, he developed an early fascination with geometry, structure, proportion and the relationship between organic and constructed form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis current work begins with hand-carved linoleum blocks, printed by hand before being cut, rotated, layered and reassembled into unique collages. Through this process, texture, repetition and chance become part of the composition, allowing each work to develop gradually rather than from a fixed image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting forms sit somewhere between architecture, sculpture and abstraction. Fragmented planes, stacked geometries and shifting perspectives can suggest buildings, monuments, vessels or figures without resolving into a single reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMauro Viale creates work where traditional craft, architectural structure and imagination meet — transforming printed fragments into bold, sculptural compositions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mauro-viale-okarito-kotuku","title":"MAURO VIALE - ŌKĀRITO \u0026 KŌTUKU","description":"\u003cp dir=\"auto\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eHand-printed linocut collage on fine paper\u003cbr\u003eSchmincke professional linocut inks\u003cbr\u003eG . F Smith fine paper\u003cbr\u003eHand-carved, printed, cut and assembled by the artist\u003cbr\u003eUnique original artwork\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eŌkārito \u0026amp; Kōtuku\u003c\/em\u003e reflects Mauro Viale’s connection to the West Coast and time spent exploring its bush, landscape and wildlife. The composition draws on the colours and forms of the region, with the kōtuku — the white heron — emerging within a fragmented world of geometric shapes, organic forms and layered texture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eRather than describing the landscape literally, Viale breaks it apart and reconstructs it through his own visual language. Birds, rock formations, water and vegetation seem to appear and recede as the eye moves through the work, creating a scene that sits somewhere between observation, memory and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe artwork begins with linoleum blocks carved and printed by hand using professional linocut inks on fine paper. The resulting prints are then cut into individual shapes, rotated, layered and reassembled into a completely new composition. Variations created during the printing process remain visible, giving each element its own texture and character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe result brings traditional printmaking into a contemporary collage practice, transforming individually printed fragments into a unique, highly constructed original work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mauro Viale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58511411183919,"sku":null,"price":2480.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/7233\/1823\/files\/2_1d32d788-76b8-4fdb-bf21-f5201c895f61.png?v=1789886298"},{"product_id":"mauro-viale-mr-sausage","title":"MAURO VIALE - MR SAUSAGE","description":"\u003cp\u003eHand-printed linocut collage on fine paper\u003cbr\u003eSchmincke professional linocut inks\u003cbr\u003eG . F Smith fine paper\u003cbr\u003eHand-carved, printed, cut and assembled by the artist\u003cbr\u003eUnique original artwork\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work draws directly on Mauro Viale’s long-standing relationship with art, architecture and design. Growing up in an artistic and architectural family, Viale spent much of his childhood in his grandparents’ studio, surrounded by the ideas and visual language of early and mid-century modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose influences emerge here through stacked geometries, shifting perspectives and the balance between curved organic forms and harder architectural planes. The composition sits somewhere between architecture, sculpture and figure: individual fragments can suggest buildings, monuments, vessels or even parts of the human form without resolving into one fixed interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViale constructs the work from linoleum blocks carved and printed entirely by hand. Each printed sheet carries subtle variations of texture and tone before being cut into separate forms, moved, rotated and layered into a new composition. This process allows chance and experimentation to remain visible within an otherwise carefully structured image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe finished work brings together traditional printmaking and collage in a distinctly contemporary way — transforming simple printed elements into a bold, sculptural composition shaped by structure, movement and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mauro Viale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58511415640367,"sku":null,"price":1980.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/7233\/1823\/files\/1_bcb3a006-e7ba-4718-9b0a-ffd35bfff8e8.png?v=1789886580"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/7233\/1823\/collections\/2_35106f39-58b3-42ef-8b64-59a1deb0c5d3.png?v=1789885061","url":"https:\/\/theartshole.co.nz\/collections\/mauro-viale.oembed","provider":"The Arts Hole","version":"1.0","type":"link"}