Abstract decomposition (sold) Print

Antoh (Antonio Mansueto) lives in Milano and was born in Naples in 1960. He has exhibited in Italy, France, Germany, USA, Romania. One of the most recent exhibitions was Distruzione Creativa in Villa Borghese in Roma in june-september 2019: 50 artworks (canvasses and recycled wood) about the creative destruction issue. He started painting from the age of 10 under the guidance of Neapolitan artists. As a teenager, he adopted a surrealist style. He studied physics and then moved to Milan, where, while working for a bank, he attended the group of artists of the Figural Observatory (dedicated to naked pose in movement), studied ceramics and frequented the artist and designer Bruno Munari (1907-1998), a signatory artist of the Second Futurism . At the age of 40 he had a strong period of psychological crisis, after which he strengthened his creative vein and accelerated his artistic career. In the 2000s he created the Artintensive project with other artists, exhibiting for some years with Midori McCabe, Paolo Manazza, Raffaello Talò and others. The maturation of a well-recognizable personal style took place in the early years after 2000, through an exhibition and creative path that integrated various currents of the twentieth century (references to Fauvism, surrealism and abstract expressionism, pop art, street art, deconstructivism, art brut). The language is alive, colorful, dynamic, in unstable equilibrium; at the same time positive, funny but suffering. However, it is a style that for the artist has a symbolic characteristic of the themes he addresses, focused on the relationship between the interiority of the individual and contemporary society, and which are treated in the concepts of the exhibitions gradually created. This is how the exhibition path outlines a personal philosophy, which starts from organized chaos and the compression of emotional energies, and then goes through three steps: 1- to qualify the world and the multiethnic and multidimensional society as a Multiverse (physical concept of parallel universes) both from the social and existential point of view, and to describe the era of the '10s as the era of "Multiplicism", a passage that surpasses Sigmunt Bauman's "liquid society". 2-addressing the concept of time through its curvatures and cyclicity (Archetype-Prototype), and the two-dimensional form of time, which he calls Kronoid.