Domenico Antonio Mancini was born in Naples in 1980. He lives and works in Milan. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples and through participation in various residences including the Antonio Ratti Foundation (Como, 2004) and the Mountain School of Art (Los Angeles, 2006). Interested in the transformation of daily life and historical memory into a synaesthetic experience, Domenico Antonio Mancini combines sophisticated media analysis, chosen from time to time, to reflect on socio-political and bio-political issues. For the artist, the practice of art always responds to the urgent need to intervene, individually and collectively, in everyday life. Even in the most recent pictorial series related to the historical memory of specific sites, the landscape painting comes as an alienating experience not only on a linguistic level: Domenico Antonio keeps suggesting mediums to flip the relationship between things, intended as both aesthetic categories and pieces of information. Solo and group exhibitions have been dedicated to the artist by important institutions as: MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples (2021); Rocca Borromeo, Angera (2019); Italian Cultural Institute of New York (2018); Barriera Association, Turin (2018); Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples (2013); Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2011); Tate Modern, London (2010); MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples (2009); Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2009); Palazzo delle Arti, Naples (2008); Museo Mineralogico Campano, Vico Equense, Naples (2007); la Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (2006); Pinacoteca dell’Accademia di Belle Arti, Naples (2002).
Domenico Antonio Mancini, with his installation Sei Dieffenbachia, is the second artist selected to activate SCONFINA. Mancini’s intervention arises from the urgency of exploring a political issue close to his heart: the right to housing, linking it to the history of public social housing and its accessibility. In Sei Dieffenbachia,
Cutting Clouds is a program featuring actions linked by the common denominator of the ephemeral and the impermanent. The title refers to Cloud Scissors, a work conceived in the early 1960s by George Brecht. A few cards dictating places, times, and modes provide the instructions for a possible combined happening, drawing
On Thursday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m., Domenico Antonio Mancini will talk with Caterina Riva, artistic director of MACTE in Termoli (CB), a museum that, like MAC, has an art prize, the Termoli Prize (1955), which has given rise to a rich museum collection.
On the occasion of the context-specific intervention N 0 created by Domenico Antonio Mancini in the Gino Meloni Room and on view through Jan. 29, on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 7 p.m., Riccardo Venturi, art historian and critic, professor of Theory and History of Art at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
From Nov. 16 to Jan. 29, 2023, N 0, a context-specific installation by artist Domenico Antonio Mancini will be presented that plays on the idea of masking and consequent unveiling of the collection of the historic Premio Lissone, putting it at the center of renewed attention. N 0 also aims
On Friday, Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. Domenico Antonio Mancini will participate in a meeting with Maria De Vivo and with Bianco-Valente and Raffaela Mariniello as part of the conference “Vies du Port. Regards Croisés sur l’espace portuaire,” which will be held at the Palazzo del Mediterraneo on Via Nuova
