Manuel Felisi was born in 1976 in Milan, where he lives and works. He attended the Art School and Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. His artistic practice moves between different areas using painting, photography, and collage to create the installations through which he translates and tells time. He uses photography to express a time that immobilizes and measures places, objects, people, and feelings; the instant of depiction is no longer a mere mechanical operation but it becomes the symbol that binds the different types of time described in the work. His works are composed of layers of different materials that always follow the same scientific order, like a ritual – from painting to print – never to be confused with the mechanical nature and repetitiveness as it is always the result of the involvement and feelings that drive the artistic doing of Felisi. Main exhibitions: Biografie (Spazio Isola, Milan, 2002); Nato a Milano Lambrate curated by Alberto Mattia Martini (Fabbrica Eos, Milan, 2008); Flowers curated by Ivan Quaroni (Fabbrica Eos, Milan, 2010); Museo Verticale (permanent exhibition at Palazzo Regione Lombardia, Milan, 2010); Piano City Event (installation Sinfonia with piano played by Vinicio Capossela in concert at Rotonda Della Besana in Milan, 2012); Menoventi curated by Fortunato D’Amico and Maria Flora Giubilei (GAM, Genoa Nervi, 2013); Griglie curated by Marco di Capua (Russo Gallery, Rome, 2014); Di-Vento (Cavaciuti Gallery, Milan, 2015); Su-Acqua curated by Markus Graf ( Russo Art Gallery, Istanbul, 2015); Tempo Immobile curated by Alberto Mattia Martini (Fabbrica Eos, Milan, 2017).
