Paolo Mennea

Drawing is the activity that most directly records my kind of inspiration and individuality.

Considering the range of my drawing styles, I have experienced the qualities of more detailed drawings versus quick doodles, and I note that because of the time constraints and/or rapid gestures of the latter, they have become more simplified and linear.

The challenge for my art is finding a good midpoint, where the finished drawing is solid and unmistakable in form, but still retains some of the "oomph" of the action doodle. My single pieces are in fact the product of a lifetime of practice: the actual moment of production lasts just a few seconds, constructed with very fast gestures.

Drawings which take longer than two minutes cannot usually be considered gestures: inevitably, they allow the artist more time to measure and plan the drawing, or to begin to define the form with modelling. And once an artist begins measuring, erasing, shading or otherwise improving the drawing with a second pass, he or she has ceased to "˜gesture-draw', and has begun rendering.

To work over a drawing, to try to polish it, is no longer practicing the ability to draw an instant impression, and it is this ability to draw with something approaching t...

Artist for Merano
November 2021 Palais Mamming Merano I
https://www.palaismamming.it/archivio-mostre/

Courage Collage
XII 2018 Galleria Bassa Atesina Egna
https://www.neumarkt-egna.it/it/neumarkt_events/courage/
https://www.bzgcc.bz.it/de/Ausstellung_Collage_Courage_5

Modes of Democracy
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art PRAGUE CZ
XI 2014
https://www.dox.cz/en/whats-on/modes-of-democracy


2013 COLLECTIVE SHOW
http://www.wooloo.org/exhibition/entry/313603

2012 AMACI DAY OPEN PERLA


The "PANORAMA MUSICAL"s London 2008-2010
The ShoeShineShow Umbrella HA 2008
UNDER COSTRUCTION Ferrara 2007
MURALES & FRESCOS Various Locations 1994-2000
PANORAMA PANORAMA K. Gasser Gallery Bolzano 1996
SITIO MURALES Salvador Bahia 1995
WOW Raffl Gallery Merano 1994
THE HOLY BOOK MM Space Los Angeles 1990
SÜDTIROL 1981