Where i left off

Concept

In his artworks Francesco Manetti brings together everything that he assimilates in everyday life, both in visual, auditory and emotional terms. This constant tangle of elements is abstractly translated and visually synthesized by him into images that are deliberately not fgurative, but visually poetic. Codes and mappings of the surrounding world summarized in layered emotions that become gesture and color. Delicacy and rude gesture. Te call of beauty, through color, composing by contrast. It is the search for the balance between order and chaos that drives him to create paintings.

Francesco Manetti mainly works with acrylic painting on canvas, that is prepared with a first layer of plaster that represents a real first step in the creation of the artwork.
The plaster makes the canvas a more processable surface that can be carved, ribbed, consumed: it’s like to give it a “first level of soul”. The artworks then acquires the other “soul’s levels” with a stratifcation of multiple layers, where each one of them represents a diferent step in the completion of the work: an intricate combination of colors, marks and scratches that goes to compone the unique and final body of the opera.