Born to Nocera Inferiore (SA). Although the profession of architect, the main business continues to deepen the themes of art, tying and contaminating the professional path with the artistic research and elements of visual arts. Photography becomes a tool used to investigate the light, matter and compositional balance that sought in everyday life, they are replicated and elaborated in sculptures, paintings and architectural. Architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography are heterogeneous tools used to investigate the topics of matter, following a common track where materials, light, volumes are protagonists that follow and bend to the needs and character of the individual disciplines. Mario Cicalese has exhibited in various group exhibitions and in 2016 he created the personal exhibition "Made in culture" for the PAN-Palazzo delle Arti of Naples.