Attributable to Francesco Mancini - Carnival mask

Since the 19th century, when painting began to explore various aspects of bourgeois life, the circus world has been a theme explored by various artists. With the development of Symbolist and Expressionist movements between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the figure of the acrobat, circus performer, or mask began to gain popularity, as it played a key role in the development of complex iconographies with hidden and mysterious meanings. Examples include the figures of artists and harlequins immortalized by Picasso during his "blue" and "rose" periods. During the 1970s and 1980s, it became a true genre, practiced by many painters, who focused their interest primarily on the figure of the clown.

Francesco Mancini's artistic production seeks to combine the concreteness of his figures with a mechanomorphic reconstruction. We note in this work a high degree of synthesis and abstraction of the subject. The process of analytical decomposition and reconstruction typical of Cubism remains fundamental. The artist seeks to possess the entire structure of the subject, considering all its possible developments in time and space. For this reason, his form unfolds in a space that is no longer univocal, founded on a single perspectival center, but multidimensional, structured by the overlapping and interplay of planes.

The artist Francesco Mancini, as we can see in this work, is inspired by a synthesis of the subject inspired by Cubist decomposition.

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