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Domenico Antonio Mancini

Domenico Antonio Mancini is born in 1980 in Naples (Italy) where he lives and works.

EDUCATIONAccademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Painting degree at Accademy of Fine Art of Naples,corso sperimentale QUARTAPITTURA, 2003Biennio Specialistico Sperimentale in “Arti visive e Discipline dello Spettacolo”, degree at Acca-demy of Fine Art of Naples , 2005

RESIDENCES and GRANTSShanghai Prize 2012, winner, 201211° Premio Cairo, curated by Luca Beatrice, finalist, 2010Transient Spaces, the tourist sindrome, curated by Uqbar, Palanga, Lituania, 2010Aequa Nox, a project of Rosalba Paiano, visiting professor Sabrina Torelli, Modigliana (Fc), 2007Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, 2006Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Advanced Course of Visual Art, visiting professor Jimmie Durham, Como

SOLO EXHIBITIONAltre Resistenze, Morra Greco Foundation, Naples, 2011Transit 1, Project Room, Madre Museum, Naples, March 26, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, 2009The Swiss Cube # 6, (with Diego Valentino) Swiss Institure, Rome, 2009 Placentia Cars, Placentia Arte, Piacenza, 2006Cellule dormienti, 404 Gallery, Naples, 2005

GROUP EXHIBITIONThe 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, 2012Vieni a prendere un caffè da noi, curated by Caterina Fossati and Luciana Littizzetto, Turin, 2011Focus Italy - The Crisis of Confidence, curated by Marta Barbieri and Lino Baldini, Placentia Arte gallery, Piacenza, 2011Door To Door, curated by Maura Picciau and Maria Giovanna Sessa, Salerno historical center, 2011Dalla Cella all’Atelier, curated by Alessandro Demma, Istituto Garuzzo per le Arti Visive, Casti-glia of Saluzzo, 2011Prague Biennale 5 - Focus Italy - The Crisis of Confidence, curated by Marta Barbieri and Lino Baldini, , Prague, 2011Osservazioni. Cento e uno modi di andare oltre, curated by Pietro Montone, Art Hotel Gran Paradiso, Sorrento, 2011Passaggi, dalla collezione privata di Ernesto Esposito, curated by Massimo Sgroi, Contenporary Arts Museum, Belvedere di San Leucio (Ce), 2011In Cantiere, a project of Luca Bradamante, Milan, 201011° Premio Cairo, curated by Luca Beatrice, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano, 2010Avventure Minime, miocinesia nell’arte oggi, curated by Antonello Tolve, Archivio Generale, Salerno, 2010Rigorosamente Libri, Rassegna Nazionale del Libro d’Artista, curated by Loredana Rea, Foggia, 2010No Soul For Sale, poster for the Mountain School of Arts, Tate Modern, London, 2010Impresa da Talenti, curated by Maria Savarese, Pan Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, 2010

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Impresa da Talenti, curated by Maria Savarese, Pan Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, 2010New Italian Epic, Brown Project Space, Milan, 2009La commedia umana di Balzac. Omaggio al romanziere assoluto, curated by Alessandro Demma, Rivalta di Torino castel, 2009Filiberto 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, 2008Same 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, 2008Same Democracy, volume due, curated by Marinella Paderni and Elvira Vannini,neon>campobase gallery, Bologna, 2008Dai Tempo al Tempo, curated by Joseph del Pesco, Fiona Parry e Pelin Uran, FondazioneSandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (Cn), 2008CLASSROOM#1, curated by Salvatore Lacagnina with Gigiotto Del Vecchio and Stefania Palum-bo, MADRE Museum, Naples, 2008Sistema Binario, curated by Adriana Rispoli, Eugenio Viola and Sasa Janjic, Beograd Railway station, Beograd, Serbia, 2008Back to the present, curated by Gabriela Galati, Appetite Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 200812x12 Visual Art, curated by Salvatore Manzi, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, 2008Aequa Nox, from a project by Rosalba Paiano, Modigliana (Fc), 2007Turn to Stone, curated by Maria Giovanna Mancini, Museo Mineralogico Campano, VicoEquense (Na), 2007 Eterotopie/Eterocronie, Menna Foundation, Salerno, 2007Art 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, 2006Crosswork, coordinated by Mario Lupano, curated by Carlotta Guerra, Immacolata Laino, Maria Giovanna Mancini, Elvira Vannini, giardino del complesso di Santa Cristina, Bologna, 2006Loading, curated by Francesca Boenzi, Nicola Cante, Francesco Tufano, Castello Baronale, Acerra 2006Visione Sociale, curated by Stefano Taccone, Casina Pompeiana, Naples 2006Born Out, curated by Simona Barucco and Umberto Di Marino, ex church of Concezioniste, Giugliano in Campania, 2005Tracce di un seminario, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio e Roberto Pinto, Careof & Viafarini, Milan 2005Overview, curated by Luigi Giovinazzo, Villa Bruno, San Giorgio a Cremano 2005Surely we will be confused, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio and Roberto Pinto, Corpo a shed ex-Ticosa, Como 2004Sogno Comune, Lia Rumma Gallery / la Feltrinelli bookshop, Naples, 2004 (QUARTAPITTURA) La città orientale, Casa del popolo di Ponticelli, Naples 2004Expanding Plastic After Four, a cura di Gaia Salvadori, pinacoteca dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, 2003Think 1 Thing, curated by Esc, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples 2001 (QUARTAPITTURA)

The Novel Of Shanghai

2012website, 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

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2012papier-mache, Italian Constitution

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Per unaNuova Teologia della Liberazione

2011books, papier-mache

Per una Nuova Teologia della Liberazione - 01 2011

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2011white paint200 x 50 cm

Non si tratta di conservare il passato.

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.

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

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2011installation, "Do Not Disturb" signs

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Do not disturb

2011serigraphy, 102 x 72 cm each

Do not disturb #1 2011

Do not disturb #2 2011

Altre Resistenze

2011papier-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 installa-tion, 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 Con-stitution.

Altre Resistenze 2011

Go East

2010ink 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

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2010papier-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.

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One Chair

2010ink on paper, 40 x 40 x 80 cm

Taking a cue from the famous work of Joseph Kossuth One and Three Chairs this workaims to find a possible fourth mode of definition of the chair: the mode of drawing.

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2009installation, 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 usuallyone can only see as an architecture, a sculpture. Through this action I reduce the altarcorporeality at its own simple design.

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2009sound installation, metal sensor, sequencer, mp3 players,

loudspeakers

In this work the people was invited to throw a coin, after expressing a wish, into thewell. Inside the well there was a sensor which activated the sound after the coin wastrown. Through the loudspeakers one could listen to the voice of each worker readinghis letter of discharge. The work was conceived after reading Balzac's “The HumanComedy” because i think in this age the unemployed workers could be perfect charactersfor a Balzac’s book.

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2009installation, 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 thetotalitarian regimes, is inverted in its significance in Mancini’s installation, an interventionthat extends into Alighiero&Boetti’s exhibit on the third floor of the museum, presentinga metaphorical excursus that takes its cue from Boetti’s singular attitude and links hisresearch into otherness to the theoretical setting of the Project Room. Mancini presentsa bitter reflection on neocolonialism, the subtle Eurocentric influence of a less obviousdomination than military intervention but one that is equally deleterious.

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20097 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.

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