Damien Mauro

Damien Mauro (born in 1983) is a French painter from Châlons-en-Champagne, who also signs his works under the name GoddoG. From an Italian family, he learned very early to move between one culture and another.

Having gone to Avignon to study, Damien Mauro worked there for ten years as a social worker, with excluded people and prisoners. He is a self-taught painter. His beginnings in graffiti date back to his teenage years.

The Jardin Rouge artist residency, run by the Fondation Montresso in Morocco, played a part in his development. His monumental murals can now be found as far afield as Portugal, Ukraine and Cambodia, and in 2022 he painted a wall in Lyon during the ZOO festival. A member of the 9ème Concept collective, he is represented by Galerie Bessaud.

Damien Mauro's language rests on a continuous line that unifies the surface while also dividing it. Faces and landscapes hide within this network, and a profile drawn in outline often emerges from a curve. Among his influences he names Delaunay, Léger, Matisse, Cocteau, Picasso, Italian Futurism and the Bauhaus, as well as Di Rosa and Combas for their punk side.