Mario R. Zammit-Lewis
Mario Zammit-Lewis, also known as Il Maltese in Piedmont in the '70s and '80s.
Born in Msida (Malta) 75 years ago, of a Maltese father and an Italian mother, he moved to Piedmont in '63 from Paris, working as a pencil portraitist.
He began painting in Colombes in the banlieue of Paris, where he won the First Prize for painting in the entire school he attended in '61/'62.
At 16, in Turin, he attended the Vittorio Veneto Art School, where he had as a maestro Raffaele Pontecorvo.
His first personal exhibition was held in 1970 and was followed by a second in '71, both in Turin.
In the following years, he received two nominations: in 1979 as an Academician of Italy with a Gold Medal, and in 1982 as a Master of Painting in Salsomaggiore Terme.
He then took part in several group exhibitions in various countries and, after a break, he started painting again in 2000 in Hong Kong, and again in 2011 in the Philippines, until 2015 when he moved to Malta, where he currently resides in retirement as an oil painting artist.
His works have been published in various trade magazines such as Il Narciso, Tuttarte, Arles, Il Centauro, Art Now, Art Leader & 80 – Guide per l’Investimento by Angelo Crespi, Artisti 22, Artisti 23, and Artisti 24, il CAM, L’Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea, Ambasciatori d’Arte Volume 1, Biancoscuro Rivista d’Arte (da un paio d’anni o più in tutti i numeri), ARTNow, Fondazione Effetto Arte… etc… etc… as well as in various newspapers in Italy and abroad, magazines, and Italian & Maltese television programs.
He has exhibited in video exhibitions and physically in: Malta, Turin, San Giorio-Susa, Brera, Milan, Padua, Genoa, Ferrara, Lecce, Palermo, Rome, Florence, Venice, Bergamo, Spoleto, Cesenatico, Caltanissetta, Barletta, Forlì, Sanremo, Trieste, Mantua, Savona, Monte Carlo, Paris, Marseille, Perros-Guirec, Luxembourg, London, Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Madrid, Budapest, Croatia, Albania, Hong Kong, China, Miami, Washington, Los Angeles, New York.
Many of his works are found around the world and he has appeared in Italy on ODEON TV in their series “Storia di Artisti” with written commentary and narration by Dr. Leonarda Zappulla, and narrated by Vittorio Sgarbi.
Being one of the first 50 chosen for “I Narratori del Nostro Tempo”, he has appeared in the program MEANDER Artistic and on NET TV in Malta, as well as in other television programs.
Last personal exhibition in Villar Basse (TO) with the presentation of the book “UOMINI” by Teresa Fessia, where the cover is one of his oil works entitled “Love is in the Air”. During the personal exhibition, there was also a fashion show with the presentation of artistic bags printed with the interchangeable flaps of his works.
