Antoh Mansueto

Italian Contemporary Art by Antoh Mansueto - Ponkyo

2015

Antoh Mansueto is an Italian artist born in 1960 who lives and works in Arcore, Italy. Antoh learned to paint as a child under the guidance of his aunt and Neapolitan artists, showing youthful surrealist inclinations. However, he studied PHYSICS and moved to Milan where he worked as a financial analyst, while studying ceramics, he drew the nude at the Figural Observatory, he frequented Bruno Munari, from whom he avidly absorbed, and who he considered a true mentor for himself. He founded the Villadarcore Association in the 2000s and obtained, in 2010, the opening of the Restoration School of the Brera Academy in Villa Borromeo d'Adda in Arcore. He writes for Artslife and Artribune and is head of the study group on cultural heritage at the AIAF - Italian Association of Financial Analysts, with which he publishes various studies (in collaboration among others with the major Italian banks (including Intesa Sanpaolo and Unicredit), the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Il Sole 24 Ore and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao). In recent years he has also been involved in the study of Corporate Art in Intesa Sanpaolo. At the same time, since the 1990s he began an assiduous exhibition path, exhibiting in Italy (including Genoa, Parma, Pavia, Milan, Rome, Naples, Turin, Ferrara, Lecce) and abroad (France, Switzerland, Germany, Romania, USA , South Korea). He designs art scarves for the high fashion company A.Quaranta Locatelli of Naples and new ceramic works in collaboration with the Galleria di Ventura Milano in Praiano, on the Amalfi coast. Among the notable exhibitions, the personal CREATIVE DESTRUCTION from June to September 2019 in Rome in Villa Borghese at the Casina di Raffaello, organized for Roma Capitale by Zetema, Progetto Cultura. In 2022 he exhibited at Piero Manzoni's former studio in Milan, followed by two solo exhibitions in Incheon, South Korea, and two stands at Lausanne Art Fair and Bergamo Arte Fiera. Among the socio-existential themes of past exhibitions: "Emotional Energy", "Entropics" (with references to Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics), "Rotating Universes", "Multiverse" (which compare modern physical theories on the universe to the multiplicity of society contemporary), "Archetype-Prototype" (on the circularity of time). Mansueto also did theater and wrote two historical comedies on the early 19th century and the Risorgimento (L'abate Visionario and Va' Pensiero), the first staged by young actors from the Piccolo Teatro of Milan and the second by the Teatro Aleph company with directed by Giovanni Moleri, with attached theater workshops for children.