Domenico Antonio Mancini

Domenico Antonio Mancini is born in 1980 in Naples (Italy) where he lives and works. EDUCATION Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Painting degree at Accademy of Fine Art of Naples, corso sperimentale QUARTAPITTURA, 2003 Biennio Specialistico Sperimentale in Arti visive e Discipline dello Spettacolo, degree at Accademy of Fine Art of Naples, 2005 RESIDENCES and GRANTS Shanghai Prize 2012, winner, 2012 11 Premio Cairo, curated by Luca Beatrice, finalist, 2010 Transient Spaces, the tourist sindrome, curated by Uqbar, Palanga, Lituania, 2010 Aequa Nox, a project of Rosalba Paiano, visiting professor Sabrina Torelli, Modigliana (Fc), 2007 Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, 2006 Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Advanced Course of Visual Art, visiting professor Jimmie Durham, Como SOLO EXHIBITION Altre Resistenze, Morra Greco Foundation, Naples, 2011 Transit 1, Project Room, Madre Museum, Naples, March 26, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, 2009 The Swiss Cube # 6, (with Diego Valentino) Swiss Institure, Rome, 2009 Placentia Cars, Placentia Arte, Piacenza, 2006 Cellule dormienti, 404 Gallery, Naples, 2005 GROUP EXHIBITION The Crisis Of Confidence / La crisi di fiducia, curated by Marta Barbieri, Lino Baldini, Marius Tanasescu, Victoria Art Center, Bucuresti, Romania, 2013 Shanghai la città invisibile, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2012 NA.TO, il presente dell arte, l arte del presente, curated by Alessandro Demma, Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Turin, 2012 Vieni a prendere un caffè da noi, curated by Caterina Fossati and Luciana Littizzetto, Turin, 2011 Focus Italy - The Crisis of Confidence, curated by Marta Barbieri and Lino Baldini, Placentia Arte gallery, Piacenza, 2011 Door To Door, curated by Maura Picciau and Maria Giovanna Sessa, Salerno historical center, 2011 Dalla Cella all Atelier, curated by Alessandro Demma, Istituto Garuzzo per le Arti Visive, Castiglia of Saluzzo, 2011 Prague Biennale 5 - Focus Italy - The Crisis of Confidence, curated by Marta Barbieri and Lino Baldini,, Prague, 2011 Osservazioni. Cento e uno modi di andare oltre, curated by Pietro Montone, Art Hotel Gran Paradiso, Sorrento, 2011 Passaggi, dalla collezione privata di Ernesto Esposito, curated by Massimo Sgroi, Contenporary Arts Museum, Belvedere di San Leucio (Ce), 2011 In Cantiere, a project of Luca Bradamante, Milan, 2010 11 Premio Cairo, curated by Luca Beatrice, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano, 2010 Avventure Minime, miocinesia nell arte oggi, curated by Antonello Tolve, Archivio Generale, Salerno, 2010 Rigorosamente Libri, Rassegna Nazionale del Libro d Artista, curated by Loredana Rea, Foggia, 2010 No Soul For Sale, poster for the Mountain School of Arts, Tate Modern, London, 2010 Impresa da Talenti, curated by Maria Savarese, Pan Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, 2010

Impresa da Talenti, curated by Maria Savarese, Pan Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, 2010 New Italian Epic, Brown Project Space, Milan, 2009 La commedia umana di Balzac. Omaggio al romanziere assoluto, curated by Alessandro Demma, Rivalta di Torino castel, 2009 Filiberto Menna. La linea analitica dell arte contemporanea, curated by Stefania Zuliani, Chiesa dell Addolorata, Salerno,2009 Out of Nothing omaggio a Baruchello, Annarumma 404, Milan, 2008 Same Democracy, volume uno, curated by Marinella Paderni and Elvira Vannini, neon>campobase gallery, Bologna, 2008. Sistema Binario, curated by Adriana Rispoli and Eugenio Viola, Mergellina Railway station, Naples, 2008 Same Democracy, volume due, curated by Marinella Paderni and Elvira Vannini, neon>campobase gallery, Bologna, 2008 Dai Tempo al Tempo, curated by Joseph del Pesco, Fiona Parry e Pelin Uran, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (Cn), 2008 CLASSROOM#1, curated by Salvatore Lacagnina with Gigiotto Del Vecchio and Stefania Palumbo, MADRE Museum, Naples, 2008 Sistema Binario, curated by Adriana Rispoli, Eugenio Viola and Sasa Janjic, Beograd Railway station, Beograd, Serbia, 2008 Back to the present, curated by Gabriela Galati, Appetite Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008 12x12 Visual Art, curated by Salvatore Manzi, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, 2008 Aequa Nox, from a project by Rosalba Paiano, Modigliana (Fc), 2007 Turn to Stone, curated by Maria Giovanna Mancini, Museo Mineralogico Campano, Vico Equense (Na), 2007 Eterotopie/Eterocronie, Menna Foundation, Salerno, 2007 Art Pages, curated by Loredana Rea, liceo ginnasio O.Fascitelli, Isernia, 2006 Written City, curated by Giulia Ferracci, Valentina Grillo, Valentina Leone, Gabriele Gasparri, Igor Renzetti, Frascati, 2006 Crosswork, coordinated by Mario Lupano, curated by Carlotta Guerra, Immacolata Laino, Maria Giovanna Mancini, Elvira Vannini, giardino del complesso di Santa Cristina, Bologna, 2006 Loading, curated by Francesca Boenzi, Nicola Cante, Francesco Tufano, Castello Baronale, Acerra 2006 Visione Sociale, curated by Stefano Taccone, Casina Pompeiana, Naples 2006 Born Out, curated by Simona Barucco and Umberto Di Marino, ex church of Concezioniste, Giugliano in Campania, 2005 Tracce di un seminario, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio e Roberto Pinto, Careof & Viafarini, Milan 2005 Overview, curated by Luigi Giovinazzo, Villa Bruno, San Giorgio a Cremano 2005 Surely we will be confused, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio and Roberto Pinto, Corpo a shed ex-ticosa, Como 2004 Sogno Comune, Lia Rumma Gallery / la Feltrinelli bookshop, Naples, 2004 (QUARTAPITTURA) La città orientale, Casa del popolo di Ponticelli, Naples 2004 Expanding Plastic After Four, a cura di Gaia Salvadori, pinacoteca dell Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, 2003 Think 1 Thing, curated by Esc, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples 2001 (QUARTAPITTURA) domenicoantoniomancini@hotmail.com +393403457279

The Novel Of Shanghai 2012 website, 49 graven wood laths The Novel of Shanghai is a relational project which is specific to the city of Shanghai. A media campaign which involves the citizens, and all the individuals who every day cross the Chinese megalopolis, will ask all of them to send a word which represents the essence of the city or which talks about each person s way of travelling through it. The choice of asking each person for a word poses the problem of the profound differences between the European and Chinese cultures, and through this double exploration of the city and the Chinese language, not composed of words as the father of modern Chinese linguistics, Yuan-Ren Chao, maintained, it proposes a meeting point and an area of exchange in the novel. The central heart of the work is the Chinese language as a powerful unifying element within linguistic fragmentation, and as an iconic system of language. Written Chinese has the characteristic of being the representation of the meaning of spoken words, and it refers, in the structure of the zi, the semantic representations of phonic forms, to cognitive elements. Chinese writing and its relationship to language as a cognitive and representative system is analogous to art intended not as representation but as a direct relationship between the experience of things and the communication of such an experience. The words collected in this way, emblems of this iconic relationship, will in a first phase be accumulated according to the chronological order in which they are received and will make up the work as a collection of individual and collective experiences

The Novel Of Shanghai, 2012

Untitled 2012 papier-mache, Italian Constitution

Untitled, 2012

1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. Untitled, 2012

Untitled, 2012

Per una Nuova Teologia della Liberazione 2011 books, papier-mache

Per una Nuova Teologia della Liberazione - 01 2011

Per una Nuova Teologia della Liberazione - 02 2011

Per una Nuova Teologia della Liberazione - 03 2011

Untitled Non si tratta di conservare il passato. 2011 white paint 200 x 50 cm Designed for an exhibition in the historic center of Salerno, this work of art reflects on the meaning of an operation in a center to recover. The quote from German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno is an incentive to think it not as a simple operation of structural recovery, but as the reconstruction of the lost social group.

Untitled 2011

Untitled 2011 installation, print on paper, hole on the wall, pencil on the wall

Untitled 2011

Untitled do not disturb 2011 installation, "Do Not Disturb" signs

Untitled 2011

Do not disturb 2011 serigraphy, 102 x 72 cm each

Do not disturb #1 2011

Do not disturb #2 2011

Altre Resistenze 2011 papier-mache, wood, lights, sound, Italian Constitution, photographs Danilo Donzelli The space is occupied by a series of 9 boards on which we find the same number of weapons exhibited, reproduced in papier-maché. Among these we find a grenade, a P-38, a Carcano 91 rifle, all weapons used during some episodes of the Resistance which involved the neighbourhood of Ponticelli in Naples. Accompanying the installation, nine audio recordings will, in a fragmentary way, activating at the approach of the spectator to the individual boards, reproduce some interviews with those who played a leading role in the events in question; interviews which form part of an archive which reconstructs some events of the war which took place in the eastern area of Naples and from which the information regarding the types of arms used were gathered, together with the circumstances and the mood of those same leading figures. The papier-maché with which the weapons were made was obtained by using the pages of the Italian Constitution.

Altre Resistenze 2011

Go East 2010 ink on paper, 120 x 170 x 100 cm Made for the exhibition Impresa da Talenti, operation of synergy between some companies in the service industry and young artists, the work reflects on the idea of design. The drawing board, archetype instrument of architect, presented as a 3D draw, it is proposed that the experience of the same design, just as the idea of urbanism is not limited solely to the definition of space or architectural structures, but refers to the experience of living places. On the table that s the plan of the refinery in Naples, the east side of the city, an unsolved case of reconversion of an industrial area in which in addition to structures that s the civil society to reconsider too.

Go East 2010

Untitled 2010 papier-mache, Italian Constitution, 210 x 120 cm Twenty rifles, exact copies of muskets used by partisans during the resistance war against the nazi-fascist army, are made of paper mache using the pages of the Italian Constitution and arranged neatly on two racks.

Untitled 2010

One Chair 2010 ink on paper, 40 x 40 x 80 cm Taking a cue from the famous work of Joseph Kossuth One and Three Chairs this work aims to find a possible fourth mode of definition of the chair: the mode of drawing.

One Chair 2010

Untitled 2009 installation, ink on paper, 220 x 160 x 160 cm The idea behind this work is to underline the design of the Altar, an element that usually one can only see as an architecture, a sculpture. Through this action I reduce the altar corporeality at its own simple design.

Untitled 2009

Untitled 2009 sound installation, metal sensor, sequencer, mp3 players, loudspeakers In this work the people was invited to throw a coin, after expressing a wish, into the well. Inside the well there was a sensor which activated the sound after the coin was trown. Through the loudspeakers one could listen to the voice of each worker reading his letter of discharge. The work was conceived after reading Balzac's The Human Comedy because i think in this age the unemployed workers could be perfect characters for a Balzac s book.

Untitled 2009

Untitled 2009 installation, polistyrene, 150 x 250 cm. adhesive plastic, 250 x 60 cm. The eagle, the emblem of power and dominion which traverses the whole of history, from the Roman empire to Saladin, from the Habsburg and Tsarist empires to the totalitarian regimes, is inverted in its significance in Mancini s installation, an intervention that extends into Alighiero&Boetti s exhibit on the third floor of the museum, presenting a metaphorical excursus that takes its cue from Boetti s singular attitude and links his research into otherness to the theoretical setting of the Project Room. Mancini presents a bitter reflection on neocolonialism, the subtle Eurocentric influence of a less obvious domination than military intervention but one that is equally deleterious.

Untitled 2009

2009 7 audioguides tracks Designed to be installed in the exhibition "Alighiero & Boetti", a retrospective of the great Italian artist at the MADRE Museum of Naples, the work of art proposes seven tracks in the audioguide of the exhibition. In the tracks are narrated the colonial story of the countries that Boetti visited and where he worked. The route begins with the definition of colonialism, combined with the large map of the world, among the best known works of Boetti and ends with the definition of neo-colonialism, combined with the work "Untitled" by Mancini, installed in the same period in the Project Room for the exhibition Transit 1.

2009