Maria Carla Mancinelli is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Rome. Her art follows three main themes: the human figure, landscapes, and light—elements that sometimes converge. Her human figures, lean and essential, depict a worn-down species stripped to the bone, reflecting the precariousness of the human condition. Fleeing from this awareness, she finds refuge in dreamlike landscapes and imaginary cities filled with fantastical architecture, blurred amidst layers of mist. Across these rarefied landscapes, explosions of light break through, overpowering every creation of man and nature alike. It feels almost like a "divine" intervention, a transcendent force that annihilates.
Her works express a dismayed reflection on the hardships of existence and the inadequacy of humankind. Her latest paintings depict abstract landscapes and ruins with glimmers of gold, a symbol of an intrinsic preciousness left to the ruin of time and human action.
As for technique, she loves to experiment continuously, making extensive use of diverse materials: acrylics, natural pigments, paper, wood, fabric, plaster, bitumen, iron, waxes, marble dust, and, above all, cement.
In 2017 she co-founded the CoALa Group (Collettivo Artisti del Lago) alongside other artists. This collective brings together painters and sculptors united by a shared vision, who live and work around the shores of Lake Bracciano. One of her pieces is held at the MAAM - Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz in Rome.
Email: mariacarlamancinelli@gmail.com
Website: www.mariacarlamancinelli.com
Pinterest page: https://www.pinterest.it/MancinelliMC/arte-pittura-e-scultura/
Instagram: @mariacarlamancinelli
Main exhibitions:
- installation Orfeo e Euridice, within BAW-Bracciano Art Week II Edizione, 2026
- installation Lamento delle radici, within BAW-Bracciano Art Week II Edizione, 2026
- Merit Award within the "Seventh Landscapes online Art Show", Grey Cube Gallery, 2026
- collective finalists 52° Premio Suzzara Inferno riflesso. La guerra nello specchio dell’arte, Museo Galleria del Premio Suzzara, Suzzara (MN), 2025
- collective Scatti di umanità within Open House 2025, Galleria Mesia Space, Roma, 2025
- installation Noli me tangere for BAW Bracciano Art Week I Ed., Bracciano 2025
- collective Biennale dell'Antropocene, Fondazione Besso, Roma, 2025
- personal Ombra mai fu, Galleria E.Co.Point, Trevignano Romano, 2025
- collective finalists aPalazzo Contemporary Art Prize 2024 competition, Spazio B Palazzo Sanseverino, Vigevano, 2024
- collective Ti-segno, Galleria Mesia Space, Roma, 2024
- Distinction Award within the Scenes & Places 4 Contest, Gallery 4{b326d0b1abf44449db8f205c78a3aac26db6b961b9ceeb4ad2b715fad1484093}, 2025
- Honorable Mention Award within the International Juried Art Competition 9th and 10th Landscape, ARTsiG Teravarna 2024
- personal Incendi, Galleria Pescino 17, Bracciano (Rm), 2023
- personal Resti d’acqua, Galleria A. Rizzo, Trevignano Romano (RM), 2023
- collective Muccart, Kou Gallery, Roma, 2023
- double personal Renzi–Mancinelli Chartae, Spazio Esp. Ecopoint, Roma, 2022
- collective Sotto i raggi del sole, Villa di Massenzio, Roma, 2022
- collective Osmosi – Risonanze d’arte contemporanea II ediz., Museo Orto Botanico, Viterbo 2022, Biennale di Viterbo 2022
- personal in collective Artisti a Palazzo, Palazzo Lattanzi, Blera, 2022, Biennale di Viterbo 2022
- auction Secret Art #saveukraine, Londra, 2022
- personal Isole, Spazio Assemblea, Rome, 2022
- collective Ghe Gaia Terra – Festival Nuvola Creativa, Museo delle Mura, Rome, 2022
- personal Passaggi di luce, Spazio espositivo Eco.Point, Rome, 2021
- contest online #DomaniInArte, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome, 2020
- collective Domino Dominio | For fun and for real, Nuvola Creativa Festival of the Arts - IV edition, Macro Asilo, Rome, 2019
- collective Tiny Biennale 7th edition - Luce / Light, Gallery of Art, Temple University Rome, Rome, 2019
- collective Tiny Biennale 6th edition, Gallery of Art, Temple University Rome, Rome, 2018
- collective The Artbox.Project New York 1.0, Stricoff Gallery, New York, 2018
- collective Refuge, Cafè Culturel de l'Ancienne Gare, Friborg (Switzerland), 2017
- collective The Artbox.Project Basel 1.0, Euroairport Basel, Basel (Switzerland), 2017
- collective Nuvola Creativa - Festival of the arts of Rome, Pelanda Factory, Rome, 2017
- collective Configuration#1, Palazzo degli Alessandri, Viterbo, 2017 (Coala Collective)
- collective Beyond IV, Wikiarte Gallery, Bologna, 2016
- Personal Shadows, E.Co.Point Gallery, Rome, 2015
- Double personal Passaggi, Galleria Il Laboratorio, Rome, 2015
- Double personal Appearances, Galleria Il Laboratorio, Rome, 2014
- collective Inthebox All Sessions, Lanificio Cucina, Rome, 2013
- collective small & LARGE, Vibe Gallery, London, 2013
- collective 1 Art Day, Casa d’Aste Bloomsbury Auctions, Rome, 2012
- personal Time and space, Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo (VT), 2012
- fair Artegenova 2012 - Under 5000 section, Genoa, 2012
- personal A different heart, Opera Unica Gallery, Rome, 2010
- prize Massenzio Arte 2010 finalists exhibition, ISA (High Fire Protection Institute), Rome, 2010
- personal Percorsi invisibili, Case Grifoni, Cerveteri, 2010
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