A homage to the artist and friend Lino Mannocci, the exhibition opened on Saturday 26 March 2022 at the Ceribelli Gallery. A gallery that has had a long-standing connection with Mannocci. The exhibition focused on Mannocci's favourite and most studied subjects: clouds. As his son, Pico Mannocci, writes at the beginning of his text published in the catalogue, ‘the cloud is the most coherent and identifiable representation in my father's work.’ Lino Mannocci was born in Viareggio in 1945, he moved to London at a very young age to study art and remained in the UK for the rest of his life, but since 1976 he spent every aesthete in Italy, in Montigiano, a village located between Lucca and Viareggio. This place, as Nadia Marchioni, art historian and friend of Lino, tells us in her text in the catalogue, ‘the origin of his painted clouds, of which, among the endless words, we have never spoken, is certainly to be found in the solitary, ecstatic observation of the landscape from his studio in Montigiano, watched over by the diamond-profiled mountains, with the characteristic blue colour of the marble stone, which seems to be tinged with the sea at sunset’. The exhibition displayed sixty works, from the late 1990s to the very last works of 2020, to which he will continue to return, despite the illness that will lead to his death on 31 March 2021, as if they were the only means at his disposal to get away from the earthly life he was living, air for his deeply reflective and philosophical mind and soul. The catalogue with texts by Arialdo Ceribelli, Pico Mannocci, Luke Elwes, Vincenzo Farinella and Nadia Marchioni is available from the gallery.
Futurist Marriage show opens at Museo Novecento in Florence
Inspired by the union between Gino Severini and Jeanne Fort, the works by Lino Mannocci exhibited on the first and second floors of the Museo Novecento were an ideal continuation of the Solo exhibition. Mannocci presented about thirty works, including postcards taken from vintage photographs, marbles that evoked tombstone bas-reliefs from the early post-war years, and paintings inspired by reworked postcards. A video and an installation completed the excursus that Mannocci dedicated to the wedding of Gino Severini and Jeanne Fort and to the presence that day of the best of the Parisian avant-gardes.
Shared Sacred Sites, The New York Public Library, the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 27 March - 30 June 2018
The exhibition, Shared Sacred Sites is at the New York Public Library, the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Morgan Library & Museum, 27 March - 30 June 2018.
Curated by Karen Barkey, Dionigi Albera and Manoël Pénicaud.
This exhibition project started at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem) in Marselle in 2015. It has since traveled to the Bardo Museum in Tunis (2016), Thessaloniki (2017), Paris (2017), and Marrakesh (2018). This year, the exhibition is being hosted at three of New York City's renowned cultural institutions - The New York Public Library, the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Morgan Library & Museum - drawing from their collections and beyond to illustrate the coexistence of the three monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Each location offers a unique perspective on the intersections between these three religions. The New York Public Library provides a historical view of several major shared holy figures and the interpretations they inspire across faiths, while items on display at CUNY's James Gallery depict contemporary instances of believers practicing their faiths in shared spaces. At the Morgan Library & Museum, a single but significant work is on view -the 13th-century Morgan Picture Bible-which demonstrates how members of the different faiths interacted through shared biblical stories.
By examining these works together, we hope to raise awareness of the potential for cooperation among religious groups.
Lino Mannocci: Monotype from Annunciation Series 2017
Lino Mannocci has ten monotypes on vellum in the show from Annunciation Series 2017.
‘I find the story of the Annunciation, the mystery of the incarnation, the possibility of embedding matter with aesthetic or spiritual value, an irresistible metaphor for the activity of painting. Working on parchment with monotypes, it seems to me, helps to evoke the complex relationship between body and soul, matter and spirit, that exists in all monotheistic religions.’ – Lino Mannocci
For more information about the exhibition visit, http://sharedsacredsites.net/museum-exhibit/shared-sacred-sites-new-york-exhibit/
Galleria Ceribelli: L'angelo E La Vergine: Breve Storia dell'iconografia dell'annunciazione, cura di Lino Mannocci, 19 novembre 2016 – 28 gennaio 2017
L'angelo E La Vergine: Breve Storia dell'iconografia dell'annunciazione, a cura di Lino Mannocci. Galleria Ceribelli, Via San Tomaso 86 – 24121 Bergamo, Italia, 19 novembre 2016 – 28 gennaio 2017. Inaugurazione: Sabato 19 novembre 2016 – Ore 18.
La mostra "L'ANGELO e la VERGINE, breve storia dell'iconografia dell'Annunciazione" alla Galleria Ceribelli di Bergamo, presenta una raccolta di circa 50 fogli di grafica antica su questo tema. Il testo, nel catalogo che accompagna la mostra, vuole identificare e sottolineare le modalità con cui i grandi artisti del passato hanno usato certi simboli che poi sono stati universalmente accettati e associati alla rappresentazione dell’Annunciazione, sia per quanto riguarda Maria, che per il suo visitatore celeste.
La mostra contiene anche un gruppo di monotipi e quadri di Lino Mannocci, autore del testo, e una grande scultura di Giuliano Giuliani, anch'essa dedicata all'Annunciazione. Scrive Mannocci, "..in questo testo cerco anche di riflettere sulla mia attrazione per questo tema che oramai mi accompagna da decenni e che secondo San Crisostomo (c. 347- 407) rappresenta il matrimonio ideale tra Dio e l’umanità."
Vital Signs at the Museo della Grafica, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, 8 July to September 2016
Vital Signs, the group show of Gli Amici Pittori di Londra, opens at the Museo della Grafica, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, from 8 July to September 2016. The exhibition, first seen at Clifford Chance Gallery in London in 2015, includes works on paper by Tony Bevan, Christopher Le Brun, Luke Elwes, Timothy Hyman, Andrzej Jackowski, Merlin James, Glenys Johnson, Alex Lowery, Lino Mannocci, Thomas Newbolt, Arturo Di Stefano, and Charlotte Verity.
TYPOLOGIES: Monotypes by Lino Mannocci at North House Gallery, Manningtree, 4 June - 2 July 2016. →
You are cordially invited to the Private View of TYPOLOGIES: Monotypes by Lino Mannocci at NORTH HOUSE GALLERY, The Walls, Manningtree, Essex CO11 1AS, Saturday 4 June 2016, 2–6pm.
The exhibition continues until 2 July 2016. Open on Saturdays, 10–5, or by appointment.
For more information visit, www.northhousegallery.co.uk or call 01206 392717.
Typology: the study of types and their succession in biology, archaeology, etc.; the doctrine that things in the New Testament are foreshadowed symbolically in the Old.