Artist: Pietro Mancuso

In the 1960s, moving from Switzerland toHolland in search of fortune, he had the opportunity to meet the great work of the masters of Northern Europe, and discover the strength of expressionist authors. Returning to Italy, he then dedicated himself to the study of the masters of the sixteenth century Veneto and to his own art: in his essentially self-taught artistic journey, Mancuso came to the vision of the great masters of Symbolism and of Metaphysical Painting.

The favorite theme of metamorphosis has consolidated over time, now more lucid and dreamy, now harder and obsessive. The shades created starting from the changing colors are his most authentic stylistic feature: they enrich the representations with an emotional and symbolic charge which, starting from recognizable figurative elements of the natural world, leads the observer to consider the compositional whole in a process that ends with a real dreamlike introspection.