Enrico Manera - Claes Oldenburg

The aesthetic of this work by Enrico Manera lies somewhere between Pop Art and the poetics of the object. Indeed, the artist recontextualizes the citation of the great artist Claes Oldenburg in an operation that draws directly on the insights of the great Swedish master. At the same time, all this presupposes a meditation on the styles of mass communication and advertising language, which places Enrico Manera's research within the realm of Pop Art.

This work by Enrico Manera represents a play the artist plays on his relationship with the history of contemporary art and his own artistic production, which involves a certain degree of citation. This citation, however, beyond the conceptual value of the operation, becomes a composition in itself. Enrico Manera has consistently crafted excellent abstract expressionist works in which the symbolic component is consistently fundamental, along with a figurative style that harks back to Pop Art. Indeed, Manera's citationist approach undoubtedly draws on Pop Art's reflections on popular and mass-produced images. In the present work, the citationism is inspired by the master Claes Oldenburg, in an image that combines citation with the artist's recontextualizing gesture.

After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Enrico Manera collaborated with galleries, attracting critical attention, exhibiting with Carla Accardi and Enrico Baj, among others. In 1979, he began a partnership with Mario Schifano and other exponents of the "Scuola di piazza del popolo" (Piazza del Popolo School), Franco Angeli and Tano Festa. His experiments, however, developed along more personal lines, expressing themselves through the reuse of images from comic strips. In 1980, he was invited to the exhibition "20 Years of Signals," where he won the Salvatore Basile Prize for his homage to Pino Pascali. In 1982, he opened a studio in San Francisco. In 1988, he returned to Rome to attend Tano Festa's funeral, to whom he dedicated an exhibition with the provocative title "Pensione Bronsky." In the early 1990s, he held numerous exhibitions in Europe and America.

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