Barbarossa, 2015

Mansueto Antoh  

Antoh Mansueto is an Italian artist born in 1960, who lives and works in Arcore, Italy. Antoh learned to paint from childhood under the guidance of his aunt and Neapolitan artists, showing early surrealist inclinations. However, he studied physics and moved to Milan where he worked as a financial analyst. During this period, he also studied ceramics, drew nudes at the Observatoire Figuratif, and frequented Bruno Munari, whom he considered a true mentor.

He founded the Villadarcore Association in the 2000s and, in 2010, obtained the opening of the Brera Academy Restoration School at Villa Borromeo d'Adda in Arcore. He writes for Artslife and Artribune and leads the study group on cultural heritage at AIAF - Italian Association of Financial Analysts, with which he publishes various studies in collaboration with major Italian banks (including Intesa Sanpaolo and Unicredit), the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Il Sole 24 Ore and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. In recent years he has also become interested in the study of Business Art at Intesa Sanpaolo.

At the same time, since the 1990s, he began an assiduous exhibition career, exhibiting in Italy (notably in Genoa, Parma, Pavia, Milan, Rome, Naples, Turin, Ferrara, Lecce) and abroad (France, Switzerland , Germany, Romania, United States, South Korea). He designs artistic scarves for the Naples haute couture house A.Quaranta Locatelli and new ceramic works in collaboration with the Galleria di Ventura Milano in Praiano, on the Amalfi Coast.

Notable exhibitions include the personal “CREATIVE DESTRUCTION" from June to September 2019 in Rome, at Villa Borghese, at Casina di Raffaello, organized for Roma Capitale by Zetema, Progetto Cultura. In 2022, he exhibited in Piero Manzoni's former studio in Milan, followed by two solo exhibitions in Incheon, South Korea, and two stands at the Lausanne Art Fair and the Bergamo Arte Fiera. Among the socio-existential themes of his past exhibitions are: "Emotional Energy", "Entropics" (with references to the bioenergetics of Alexander Lowen), "Rotating Universes", "Multiverse" (which compares modern physical theories on the universe to the multiplicity of contemporary society), "Archetype-Prototype" (on the circularity of time).

Mansueto also did theater and wrote two historical comedies about the beginning of the 19th century and the Risorgimento ("L'abate Visionario" and "Va' Pensiero"), the first staged by young actors from the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and the second by the Teatro Aleph company, directed by Giovanni Moleri, with theater workshops for children.