DOMENICO MANGANO Born in 1976 Palermo IT. Lives and works

DOMENICO MANGANO
Born in 1976 Palermo IT. Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL. Email: [email protected]
Website: www.domenicomangano.com
Gallery: Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome. EDUCATION
1996 - 2000 Academy Fine Art of Palermo, BA.
2005 - 2007 Academy Fine Art of Palermo, MA.
RESIDENCIES
2010 OTHERS: In collaboration with Athens Biennale and RISO Museum of Contemporary Art of Palermo. Residency programme in Athens, GR.
2008 REVOLVING BOUNDARIES: Artist-in-residence-program promoted and sponsored by the Galleria Dell'arco Shanghai, CHINA.
2007 ISCP: INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM, New York, USA.
2004
ART/OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' COLONY, New York, USA.
2001 ATELIERS D’ARTISTES, Marseille, FR.
AWARDS
2013 Finalist for the Premio Maretti, PAN - Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, IT.
2008 Finalist for the Premio Cairo 2008 IX edizione, Milan, IT. Finalist for the Talent Prize 2008, Rome, IT.
Finalist for Adolfo Pini Prize 2008, Milan, IT.
2007 Winner of the PAGINE BIANCHE D’AUTORE III edition: Residency programme at ISCP of New York, USA.
2003
Finalist for the Furla Prize, FAME, LEGGI IN INGLESE READ IN ITALIAN, Querini Stampalia, Venice, IT.
2000
Winner of the GENIO DI PALERMO III edition: Residency programme at Ateliers d’Artistes in Marseille, FR. PUBLIC WORKS COLORI DAL MEDITERRANEO: Installazioni permanenti di opere di artisti contemporanei, Ospedale Sant’Andrea, Roma, IT.
LE VIE DELL’ARTE, Parco delle Madonie, Palermo, IT.
PRIVATE COLLECTION
THE MARGULIES COLLECTION AT WAREHOUSE, Miami, USA.
DEUTSCHE BANK: VIAGGIO IN ITALIA, DB Collection Italy, Milan, IT.
RISO: Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Collezione Permanente, Palermo, IT.
FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO, Turin, IT.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013
WERKEN IS LEVEN, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, IT.
RITE AND SURPRISE, Karlin Studios, Prague, Curated by M. Novotny, CZ.
2012 WAR GAME, LW56, Vienna, curated by Gregor Eldarb, A.
HOU EN TROUW, L’Ozio, Amsterdam, curated by Lorenzo Bruni, NL.
FIT, Velan Center, Turin, curated by Francesca Referza, IT.
2009 TWINKLE TWIDDLE, Complesso Monumentale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Roma, curated by Valentina Ciarallo e Pier Paolo Pancotto, IT.
2008
OVER THE BLURRING SHINE, Museo Hendrik C. Andersen, Roma curated by Teresa Macrì, IT.
DON’T DISTURB THE GROWING GRASS, Galleria dell'Arco, Shanghai, CHINA.
2007 HAPPY ENDING, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma curated by Christopher Y. Lew, IT.
2004
PREVIEW, Film e video d’artista, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma, a cura di Maria Rosa Sossai, IT.
PRIMO MAGGIO, Galleria Alberto Peola, Torino curated by Marcello Smarrelli, IT.
2001
ARCHIVIO: MERANO 2000-PALERMO 2001, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai, IT.
LA FOLIE DE LA VILLA MEDICIS: Domenico Mangano, Villa Medici Accademia di Francia, Roma, curated by Chiara Parisi, IT.
LA STORIA DI MIMMO, Luciano Inga-Pin Contemporary art, Milano, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai, IT.
VIAGGIO STRAORDINARIO DI J., Tohu-Bohu, Marsiglia, curated by di Thierry Ollat, FR.
VOYAGE EXTRAORDINARIE DE J., Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, curated by Eva Di Stefano, Paola Nicita, Ida Parlavecchio, IT.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection) 2013
A LOVE MEAL, Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.
PREMIO MARETTI, PAN - Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, IT.
2012
TOUCH, Futura, Prague, curated by M. Novotny, CZ.
LANDSCAPE ON THE MOVE, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL.
CU AVI LINGUA PASSA U MARI / WHOEVER HAS THE LANGUAGE CROSSES THE SEAS, Fondazione Sambuca, Palermo, curated by Francesco Pantaleone, IT.
2011
STORIE, Deutsche Bank Collection Italy. Piazza del Calendario, Milan, IT.
PIGS Case, supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm, curated by Lo And Behold, S.
BIENNALE GIOVANI MONZA 2011. Serrone della Villa Reale di Monza. Curated by Marco Bazzini, Luca Cerizza, Yun Kyoung Kim, Franziska Nori, Stefano Questioli, IT.
SOCIAL IDENTITY, ITALIAN VIDEO ART TODAY, BETWEEN ETHIC AND ESTHETIC: Crane Arts – A Community Of Art & Culture In Philadelphia, curated By Ludovico Pratesi, USA.
2010
PAESAGGIO E POPOLO DELLA SICILIA, Riso Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Palermo, curated by Giovanni Iovane, IT.
VideoREPORTITALIA: 08_09, GC.AC, Monfalcone (GO), curated by Andrea Bruciati, IT.
OTHERS RESIDENT, Fondazione Brodbeck Catania curated by Giovanni Iovane, IT.
OTHERS, Le Biennali d’Arte di Marrakech, Instabul, Atene a Palermo e Catania, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Catania, curated by XYZ, IT.
YOU-WE + ABLO video dalla collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Rotonda di Via Besana, Milano, curated by Francesco Bonami, IT.
LANGUAGES AND EXPERIMENTATIONS, Young Artist in a Contempory Collection, Mart Rovereto, IT.
2009 DIE HEITERKEIT DER KUNST (The sublime gaiety of Art), Seven young Italian artists in Linz, Kunstpfad & Studio für Bewegung & Kunst, Linz, A.
IL CIELO IN UNA STANZA: Per una osservazione eccentrica del paesaggio.GC.AC, Monfalcone (GO), curated by Andrea Bruciati, IT.
2ND ATHENS BIENNALE 2009, HEAVEN, GR.
PASSAGGI IN SICILIA: La Collezione di Riso e oltre, RISO Museo d’Arte Comtemporanea di Palermo, curated by Paolo Falcone e Valentina Bruschi, IT.
BLICK – Luogo e relazione, Neon>Campo Base, Bologna curated by Lelio Aiello, IT.
THE BUFFER ZONE, American Academy in Rome, Curated by Cecilia Canziani and Lexi Eberspacher, IT.
ITALICS: Italian Art Between Tradiction and Revolution, 1968- 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, curated by Francesco Bonami, USA.
FILM D’ARTISTA: Arte e Cinema un incontro sui crinali della catastrofe, curated by Lelio Aiello with Lorenzo Buccella & Gudrun De Chirico, IT.
2008
ITALICS: Italian Art Between Tradiction and Revolution, 1968- 2008, Palazzo Grassi Venice, curated by Francesco Bonami, IT.
WORLDS ON VIDEO - INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, curated by Anita Beckers, IT.
9° PREMIO CAIRO, Palazzo della Permanente di Milano, Milan, IT.
TALENT PRIZE 2008, Museo del Corso, Rome, IT.
VIDEOCRACY, Video Exhibition, site-specific and performance projects,Tina B. The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, curated by Micaela Giovanotti, CZ.
ZOOM_Inside the human space. San Servolo island, Venice, IT
DU DIALOGUE SOCIAL, Riesa Efau Kulturvere in Dresden, D.
CALL AND RESPONSE, Scope NY, New York, curated by Jarrett Gregory, USA.
THE UNFAIR FAIR, 1:1projects, Loto Arte, Roma, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Vincent Honoré, IT.
2007
ART IN GENERAL: Screening of videos by Domenico Mangano, New York curated by Sara Reisman, USA.
BUSINESS AND PLEASURE VOLUME 2, ISCP: International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, curated by Rita Palma, USA.
ROUND TRIP: An itinerary between Paris, Milan and New York curated by Francesca di Nardo. Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, FR.
BELLAVITA, New Chinatown Barbershop Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Denis Isaia, Cristina Natalicchio, USA.
ART RADIO LIVE & PAN SCREENING: 52a Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Biennale di Venezia: Venezia, Giardini della Biennale, IT. IN THE EDGE OF VISION, Victoria Memorial Hall Calcutta e National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi, curated by Rajeev Lochan, Lorenzo Canova, Maria Cristina Bastante, IND.
2006
BIENNALE EUROPEA ARTI VISIVE. Generazioni / rigenerazioni. arte nell’età dei conflitti ininterrotti Camec – La Spezia, curated by Bruno Corà, IT. CIRCE LINE - Rotonda a mare, Senigallia (Ancona) curated by Marcello Smarrelli, IT.
VideoREPORTITALIA: 04_05, GC.AC, Monfalcone (GO), curated by Andrea Bruciati, IT.
SICILIA!, Galleria del Credito Siciliano, Acireale (CT), curated by di Marco Meneguzzo, IT.
RAVELLO FESTIVAL, Villa Rufolo, Ravello (Sa), curated by di Achille Bonito Oliva, IT.
VIDEOART YEARBOOK 2006, Chiostro di Santa Cristina, Bologna curated by di Renato Barilli e Fabiola Naldi, IT.
M.M.M. Milano. Melbourne. Milano. Care of, Milano, Melbourne, curated by di Chiara Agnello, Roberta Tenconi, AUS.
ART UNLIMITED VIDEO SECTION, Art | 37 | Basel, CH.
VIDEOPASSAGES @ CARE OF, un percorso video nei negozi di via Torino e careof curated by di Mario Gorni e Simona Bordone, Milano, IT.
TRANSEUROPEENNES, Theatre Charles Dullin a Grand Quevilly, Rouen, FR.
I COSTRUTTORI: il lavoro in cento anni di arte italiana, Castel Sismondo Rimini, IT.
2005
INTRAMOENIA/EXTRA ART, Castel del Monte (Andria) curated by di Achille Bonito Oliva e Giusy Caroppo, IT.
ILLUMINAZIONE, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, curated by di Olivier Grasser, Amiens, FR.
IL GRANDE TEATRO DEL MEDITERRANEO. Atto primo: differenti visioni Trevi Flash Art, curated by di Maurizio Coccia, Valentina Sansone, IT.
MODERN TIMES volume 1, MAN_Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro curated by di Cristiana Collu, Maria Rosa Sossai, IT..
DIVERSE ATTITUDINI, REPORT, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, curated by di Lucia Farinati, Chiara Parisi, Marina Corbello e Gino Gianuizzi, IT.
VIDEOZONE 2, Tel Aviv. Sainsbury Lecture Theatre, The British School at Rome, IT.
XIV QUADRIENNALE, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma, IT.
LE VIE DELL’ARTE, Parco delle Madonie, Palermo, curated by di Salvatore Lacagnina, IT
2004
PAESAGGIO ITALIANO, VIDEOZONE 2 - The Second International Video Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv, curated by Cristiana Perrella, IL.
ARTICULATION, BELEF Center, Belgrade Serbia, CS.
ART/OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' COLONY, Open day, Omi/Hudson, New York, curated by di Blair Desssent e Ruth Adams, USA.
EMPOWERMENT/ CANTIERE ITALIA, Villa Croce – Museo d’arte contemporanea e Villa Bombrini, Genova. curated by di Marco Scotini, IT.
FUORI USO, Ferrotel, Pescara, curated by di Luca Beatrice, IT.
RETENTIVA: Funzioni e disfunzioni della fotografia Italiana attuale, Veneziaimmagine 04, padiglione Italia ai Giardini della Biennale, Venezia, IT.
ON AIR: VIDEO IN ONDA DALL’ITALIA Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone curated by Andrea Bruciati, Antonella Crippa, IT.
SPACE IS THE PLACE, Officinema. curated by di M. Altavilla, P. Capata, G. Giannuizzi, P. Lotta, M. Sossai. Cinema Lumière, Bologna, IT.
2003
IMAGO, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone (GO), curated by di Andrea Bruciati, IT.
MOBILITALYARTE, Darc, Maxxi Roma, curated by di Cloe Piccoli, IT.
TORINO FILM FESTIVAL. Sezione Falsi Raccordi. Torino, IT.
L’ÉPREUVE DE L’ÉTRANGER, Nuit Blanche, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Parigi, curated by Stefano Chiodi, FR.
7 SIEBEN, Video italiani, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Colonia, curated by di Lelio Aiello, D.
PRAGUE BIENNALE, Veletrzni palac,Prague, CZ.
MOLTITUDINI-SOLITUDINI, Museion: museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, curated by Sergio Risaliti, IT.
FAME, LEGGI IN INGLESE READ IN ITALIAN, Furla Prize, IV edition 2003, Venezia, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, curated by Chiara Bertola, IT.
2002
UNISCI I PUNTI, Ateliers d’Artistes de la ville de Marseille, Marsiglia, curated by Daria Filardo, Thierry Ollat, FR.
RAM, Radio Arte mobile Zerynthia, Villa Medici Accademia di Francia, Roma, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai, IT.
PREMIÈRE VUE, Passage de Retz, Parigi, curated by Michel Nuridsany, FR.
EXIT: Nuove geografie della creatività italiana, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, curated by Francesco Bonami, IT.
FULLCONTACT, Montevergini Galleria Civica Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, curated by Salvatore Lacagnina, Sergio Risaliti, Carolin Corbetta, IT.
VERSO IL FUTURO: identità nell’arte italiana 1990-2002, Museo del Corso, Roma, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Costantino D’Orazio, IT.
THE (RESEARCH) ROOM, Manifesta 4, Europaische biennale Zeitgenossischer Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, D.
ASSAB ONE: La generazione emergente dell’arte in Italia, Milano, via Assab 1, curated by Roberto Pinto, Laura Garbarino, IT.
IL CONFINE DELLE PAROLE, Via Pal Biblioteca Comunale Trento, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, curated by Fabio Cavallucci, IT.
PROTOTIPI 01, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti Roma, curated by Stefano Chiodi, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, IT.
2001
COLORI DAL MEDITERRANEO: Installazioni permanenti di opere di artisti contemporanei, Ospedale Sant’Andrea, Roma, curated by Zerynthia, IT.
INVASIONE ITALIANA, Montevergini galleria Civica Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, curated by Salvatore Lacagnina, IT.
2000
PREVIEW: Castel San Pietro Terme (BO) curated by Gino Gianuizzi, Mauro Manara, Daria Filardo, IT.
IL GENIO DI PALERMO III EDIZIONE: studi aperti degli artisti, Palermo, curated by Eva Di Stefano, Paola Nicita, Ida Parlavecchio, IT.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Electric Candles, 2013, series of 10 photographs, Cprint on alluminium 45x30 cm each.
In the Netherlands there are over seven thousand
desecrated churches, many of these are built in the postwar period, particularly between the 1950s and 1960s.
With the cultural changes of the 1968 and the decline in
religious practice churches have become gyms, cultural
centers or malls or even mosques, changing the original
religious connotation.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Orderliness, 2013, Installation on wood billboard, HD
Video, 9’. This silent video is a registration of the surreal and at the
same time austere ambiance of the village of Veenhuizen
situated in the North East of the Netherlands, which is a
former re-education colony. DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Celkap, 2013, oil on paper, 27,9 x 35,6 cm.
This work is based on a Dutch tradition of the Nineteenth
century when prisoners were obliged to wear a mask. In
this way recognition between the prisoners was avoided
and the prisoner’s identity erased. DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Veenhuizen Series, 2012, 12 photographs, Inkjet print
on baryte paper, 50 x 75 cm each. This work is inspired by the village of Veenhuizen situated
in the North East of the Netherlands, which is a former reeducation colony and nowadays still counts four prisons.
Characteristic of this village are the moralistic writings on
the houses, which aimed at educating the people who
were working and living in the village. I have played with
the sense of these writings by changing or opposing
them. This is the first sketch of a project that will be
carried out in the village itself.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Hou en trouw (Love for Fidelity) 2012, Installation. This work is inspired by the village of Veenhuizen
situated in the North East of the Netherlands, which is a
former re-education colony and nowadays still counts
four prisons. Characteristic of this village are the
moralistic writings on the houses, which aimed at
educating the people who were working and living in the
village. I have played with the sense of these writings by
changing or opposing them. This is the first sketch of a
project that will be carried out in the village itself.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works War Game, 2012, HD video 20’.
The video War Game is a series of tableaux vivants in
Amsterdam. Eight, almost frozen, scenes that are
accompanied by a disturbing ongoing sound alarm. It
might seem an unreal portrait of the city, however with
this video a monthly ‘ritual’ in the Netherlands is captured.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Nederlands op straat, 2012, audio mp3 file 7'.
This sound piece is a special language course for
aspirant drugdealers in the Netherlands. It is inspired by
the notorious Sicilian trade and at the same time a
parody of a Dutch course for integration. It has been
developed shortly after my emigration to the Netherlands
where I was following myself an integration course and
confronted with the stereotype of the Sicilian abroad.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Cu avi lingua passa u mari, 2012, canvas banner with
embroidery 400x 100 cm .
A typical Sicilian expression, translated as Whoever has
the language crosses the sea, became the slogan for the
first supporter group of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and
Transgenders for soccer in Palermo and Italy. The work
was made in the context of an exhibition connected to
the gay pride and offers another image on the masculine
culture that surrounds soccer in Italy.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works 515, 2011, HD video 5'.
This project is inspired on the story of the anarchist
Gaetano Bresci who emigrated to the United States and
returned in Italy to assassinate king Umberto I in the
Royal palace of Monza. 515 is an ironic vision of the
return of Bresci to the palace today, alluding the actual
political situation in Italy. The work was made for the
biennale in Monza that took place in the Royal palace.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works An Oath Sealed with Butter is an Oath that is soon forgotten, 2011, Oil on paper 45x35 cm each.
The starting point of this project is a stock of forgotten wrapping papers used for Italian butter, which was
distributed in a cooperative way after the war. This work is inspired by a research of proverbs on butter in
the Netherlands that has an important tradition in producing butter. I have realized a series of ‘fake’
posters, painted, inspired by Dutch exemplars that once were used to represent a class or ideological
group. It has become a series of ironic bricolages that combine ideals, cultures and time periods,
becoming decontextualised interpretations.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Empty Paper, 2010, video HD 15 min.
During the summer of 2010, when Greece risked to be
expelled from the European Union, I asked ten artists
who live and work in Athens to describe me their first
drawing that they made when they were a kid. Empty
paper is a metaphor for the origin; the entrance door to
another world but at the same time a Tabula Rasa or
restart. With: Omio, Georgia Sagri, Nina Papaconstantinou,
Vassilis Karouk, Nikos Navridis, Katerina Apostolidou,
Theo Prodromidis, Anna Lascari, Poka Yio and Irini
Karayannopoulou.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Ablo, 2009, HD video 3'.
Ablo project was part of the exhibition You We, curated
by Francesco Bonami, who invited ten artists to make a
video about a Griot musician of Burkino Faso. I have
imagined Ablo inside a public garden where he has a
mysterious encounter with a woman who carries out an
unexpected and surrealistic gesture that destabilizes the
protagonist totally.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Twinkle Twiddle, 2009, HD video 11'.
A cinematographic set in an ancient hospital in Rome,
marked by suffering and dead, was the context of a live
performance that resulted in a noir movie with a sinister
outcome. DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Rumor to the contrary 2008, lambda print 150x100 cm.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Skatepark, 2008, Installation, graffiti on wood variable size.
Skate Park is an installation in the main room of the museum in
Rome that is dedicated to the work of the American Norwegian
artist H.C. Andersen. In between the neo-classical sculptures a
skate park with graffiti of the names of the American presidents is
realized. In my imagination the room will come alive during the
night when the statues come down and play.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Dynamite, 2008, Installation, iron, paper, glue, popcorn,
variable size.
In the center of one of the rooms of the museum H.C. Andersen a
popcorn horse is placed. It is an anti-classical sculpture,
symbolizing the free spirit of the American dream. The work was
part of the solo exhibition Over the Blurring Shine in the Hendrik
Christian Andersen Museum in Rome.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Disco Public Toilet, 2008, Installation 250x180x250 cm
mixed media.
Disco Public Toilet is a typical Chinese public toilet from the
outside, but inside you will find a surprise: flashy lights and
mirrors referring to the nightlife in Shanghai. This functional
one-person disco offers for a moment an escape from the
collective Chinese culture. The work was part of the solo
exhibition Don’t disturb the growing grass that I realized
during a residency in Shanghai. DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works The Noise of the Oar, 2008, Wall Painting with
chinese stamp, 400 cm.
This wall painting conducts the text 'the noise of the
oar', which is inspired by a Chinese poem. It represents
the river that crosses Shanghai. The visitors are invited
to use the stamps themselves and take the poetic phrase
with them. The work was part of the solo exhibition
Don’t disturb the growing grass that I realized during a
residency in Shanghai DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Don’t Disturb the Growing Grass, 2008, video 6'.
Don't disturb the growing grass is a travel in China
during the Olympic Games of 2008. A story made of
images that reveal the strong contrast inside of the city
of Shanghai between the pauperized part and the new
futuristic one that reminds of an amusement park.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Don’t Disturb the Growing Grass, 2008, lambda prints,150 x 100 cm.!
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Without Horizon, 2008, lambda print 70 x 55 cm each.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works The Pine Float, 2007, video 6'.
This video follows an imaginary hunter, my father, in his
garden. The course of the happenings and encounters
evoke an unheimlich sensation.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Happy Ending 2007, lambda print 70 x 55 cm each.!
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Ducks 4 Sale / Moon Landing, 2007, Oil on Canvas 150x100 cm each.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Dark Messages, 2007, video 3 min.
The video Dark Messages begins with shipping
container cranes in a vacant wharf and then shifts from
twilight to night, presenting a group of men abandoning
one vehicle and piling into another in a conspiratorial
mood. Avoiding any sense of plot, the work is
emblematic of urban life: accidents and injury without
known causes, anxiety without explicit reasons, endings
without closure.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works The Light Bridge, 2005, light projector, variable size.
This fascist bridge, the old way to enter the mountains
of Madonie in Sicily, is abandoned nowadays and
replaced by a more modern highway bridge that covers
it. But at night, when its silhouette appears on the hill, it
lives again like a ghost, wanting to preserve the memory
of that place of passage and exchange. The work was
made for the group exhibition Le Vie dell’Arte in the
Madonie mountains in Sicily. DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Too Much, 2005, video 3 min.
‘What
do you do in America?’ That’s the opening
question of this video in which the American countryside
appears as a place of transition of anonymous towns,
where the only reference points are gas stations and
shopping malls. These are places where time seems
suspended in a dimension without history. The video
was made during a residency at Art/OMI International
arts center, New York State.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Social & Private 2005, lambda print 75x50 cm.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Pizzosella, 2004, video 3'.
Pizzosella is a video that combines fragments of a
contemporary Palermo in which the inhabitants, animals
and buildings are the main protagonists. The craziness
of the reality of the quotidian routine gives this video a
fictional tinge.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Primo Maggio, 2004, video 3'.
In Primo Maggio (May Day) a group of Slovaks, that came
for work to Italy, sing ‘The Internationale’. Ten years
after the implosion of the communist system this act
seems a comic tragedy. DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Color/Print 2003, lambda print 100x75 cm.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Drift, 2003, video 2'.
This video addresses in a lyric way the simultaneity of
the traces of the illegal immigrants that arrive daily in
the south of Italy with the beach life of the locals.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Anguish, 2002, video 3'.
This video is a mental trip from the south to the north,
made by a hypothetical laborer.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Encastrolo, 2001, video 6'.
In this video, Giovanni, a street trader in my home town,
confesses in Sicilian dialect during a party the story of
his life. He was falsely accused of being a member of the
Sicilian Mafia and sentenced to life in prison. After three
years, the mistake was rectified. While other Sicilian men
could have felt proud of being taken for a mafioso, the
protagonist talks about this humilation.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Palermo 2001, color/print 75x50 cm each.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Merano 2000, 2000, video 10'.
During a seasonal job in the touristic city of Merano I
have lived together with a small community of Croatians.
This video draws on my experience of getting to know
from close by a group of people who isolated themselves
deliberately from the consumer society.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Merano 2000, 2000, color/print 75x50 cm each.!
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works Voyage Extraordinaire de J., 2000, color/print 75x50 cm.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works La storia di Mimmo 2000 video 10 min.
The protagonist of La Storia di Mimmo is my uncle who
lives in a working-class neighborhood of Palermo and
who observes the world from his window, never crossing
the threshold into the outside world. He talks about his
memories, rituals and habits. Mimmo and I are
accomplices in the video, demonstrated by the extreme
close-ups of the face and the obese body of Mimmo.
DOMENICO MANGANO Selected Works La storia di Mimmo 1999, color/print 75x50 cm each.