Alfonso Mangone - Florence, 2008

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings. Whether Rome, Venice, Florence, or any other city, the urban landscape recurring in Alfonso Mangone's work is imbued with a sense of vital, unstoppable movement, stemming from his expressionistic pictorial language.

As we can see in this work, Alfonso Mangone's urban landscape is resolved in an extremely elegant chromatic synthesis. The objects, with their shapes and volumes, as well as the characters, dissolve into a continuum of color, in which everything is fluid, everything is in motion. The artist's gestures themselves express this almost uncontrollable dynamism, manifesting themselves in broad, dense brushstrokes of paint that structure the objects or zigzag, following the trails of light. Alfonso Mangone's work is also remarkably evocative in terms of palette: in this case, the view is conceived in an intense white, counterpointed by the painter's habitual use of bright reds and yellows, and other warm colors.

Fernando Alfonso Mangone was born in 1958 in Altavilla Silentina. From 1978 to 1989, he pursued his artistic career between Florence and Rome, establishing collaborative relationships with numerous Italian and international intellectuals, artists, art critics, and gallery owners. During these same years, Mangone began an intense exhibition program in galleries and public spaces both nationally and internationally. In the following years, he moved first to Amsterdam and then to Berlin, receiving important commissions. Mangone furthered his pictorial research with numerous solo and group exhibitions in Milan, Venice, Paestum, Salerno, Positano, Groningen, Rome, Turin, and Naples.

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