The Novel Of Shanghai

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)
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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
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papier-mache, Italian Constitution
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Nuova Teologia della Liberazione
2011
books, papier-mache
Per una Nuova Teologia della Liberazione - 01 2011
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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.
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installation, print on paper, hole on the wall, pencil on the wall
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do not disturb
2011
installation, "Do Not Disturb" signs
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serigraphy, 102 x 72 cm each
Do not disturb #1 2011
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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