Giuliano was born in Lodi Vecchio in 1938 and died in 2009 at the age of 71.
It was in the 1960s when he started to approach nature and the natural environment with works recalling militant poetry, increasing addressing /focusing (and addresses) his attention to the political and social environment. It was after 1976 Venice Biennale and his encounter with Gianni Sassi that Mauri approached what he himself called ‘natural culture’, i.e. that / an instinctive belonging to nature that, in the course of civilisation, has been replaced for by a constant purpose of possessing it.
Mauri’s works evoke that natural dwelling in which every man finds himself at birth, that very place that gives rise to the laws of nature being progressively undermined by our contemporary world.
Nicknamed the Weaver of the Woods by art critic Vittorio Fagone, Giuliano Mauri builds vegetal architectures in an effort to recover an intimate and profound dialogue with places. His work has always followed this path, paying great attention not to leave but minimal, essential signs of reciprocal completion between art and nature.
