Adriano Mencini

Adriano Mencini, a Venetian artist born on 20 April 1948, showed a gift for art from childhood. The son of an artist, he soon began to take part in numerous exhibitions and competitions on the strength of his artistic talents. He not only works as an interpreter of a surrealist, symbolic style of painting, but at the same time expresses his artistic spirit through the written word: poetry accompanies his paintings.

Painting and poetry come together in the person of Adriano Mencini, where a search for truth and vitality emerges, one that goes beyond the figurative element and pursues aspects of being not yet embraced. This surreal sentiment that pervades the work of the Venetian artist makes itself felt through its variety of figuration and colour, finding a dimension between dream and unreality. The spirituality observed in his oil paintings has ancient roots, belonging to the traditional Venetian school of painting, where the effect of colour becomes more important than the drawn element. This vital and artistic energy gives rise to an aesthetic that opens a timeless parenthesis, a projection of the painter's most hidden dreams.