Piero Manai
Untitled, sd
PIERO MANAI
Born in 1951 in Bologna, Italy
Died in 1988 in Bologna, Italy
Piero Manai gained immediate notice in the early 1970s in Bolognese circles thanks to a kind of painting that, in the words of Flavio Caroli (who inserted the artist in his book Trentasette, il mistero del genio adolescente) and Pietro Bonfiglioli, “blends hyperrealism and conceptual abstraction,” “always somehow depicting the idea of painting itself.”
It is an inner work, an anatomical and psychic construction. To paint a figure, to skin it three times, to put it to the test in order to reach a threshold.
Piero Manai
Selected Artworks
Piero Manai
Testa, 1986
Piero Manai
Untitled (figura), sd (1983-85)
Piero Manai
Figura, 1984
Piero Manai
Untitled, 1984
Piero Manai
Untitled, 1983
Piero Manai
Figura nel paesaggio, 1987
Piero Manai
Figura, 1985
Piero Manai
Untitled (monolite), 1986-87
Piero Manai
Untitled (monolite), 1987
Piero Manai
Figura sorda, 1986
Piero Manai
Untitled, sd (1987-88)
Piero Manai
Untitled (Monolite), 1986
Gallery Exhibitions
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Publications
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A Retrospective - Works from 1968 to 1988
Riccardo Baruzzi, Irma Blank, Adelaide Cioni, Filippo de Pisis, Paolo Icaro, Piero Manai, Alessandro Pessoli