Attilio Manzi

Attilio Manzi is an Italian artist settled in Spain for over 20 years. A vocational cosmopolitan, with a cosmopolitan educational background, Manzi started to exhibit his work in Germany, following his being "discovered" by an art gallery in Munich. From the very beginning his artistic production was placed within the tradition of lyric abstraction, developing in series that, as a whole, conform a wide, articulated discourse that evolves every year in a sustained exploration of new topics and textures (see ). Nevertheless, some characteristic features remain steady in his style: a fine sense of color, a stroke alternating spontaneous and carefully drawn areas, stains, superpositions, scribbling. As a result, complex canvases come out with a certain symbolic dimension in which recurrent particular gestures distill a fresh spontaneity that recalls the free, light and deep painting of a child, a kind that Manzi states to admire. A basically urban aesthetics contaminated by a wide range of influences, from graffiti to the more sophisticated informal painting of the 50's. Attilio Manzi's work is part of private collections in Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Colombia and the US.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:

2013 Homeworks,CICUS, Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla.
2013 Anabasi, Galería Marita Segovia, Madrid.
2011 Hortus, Galería Féliz Gómez, Sevilla.
2010 Sgrifi, E8 Galería, Madrid.
2009 Sres. Winters, Barbastro (Huesca).
2008 Buildings, Hotel Las Casas del Rey de Baeza, Sevilla.
2008 Buildings, Centro Culturale Italiano, Sevilla.
2007 Something Inside, Galería Marita Segovia, Madrid.
2005 Rooms, Galería Belgamboxer, Sevilla.
2003 Still, Galería Artenvielfalt, München, Alemania.

GROUP EXHIBITION:

2013 Galería Félix Gómez, Sevilla.
2012 Estío, Galería Gema Llamazares, Gijón.
2008 Galería Marita Segovia, Madrid.
2006 Trinkkurhalle am Timmendorfer Strand, Alemania.
2004 Introspezioni contemporanee, Mostra internazionale d’arte contemporanea, Chiesa del Torresino, Cittadella, Italia.
2004 Armida, Haus der Kultur, Hohenhems, Austria.
2003 Armida, galería Artenvielfalt, München, Alemania.
2003 Sette+uno, galería Extendo Artis, Bassano del Grappa, Italia.

FERIAS

2007-13 Almoneda, Madrid, Galería Marita Segovia.
2007-12 Artmadrid, Madrid, Galería Marita Segovia.
2004 Feria de Padova (Italia), Galería Artenvielfalt.
2004 Feria de Innsbruck (Austria), Galerí...