The Landscape project proposes an intense dialogue between the 19th-century landscape and the contemporary landscape. Domenico Antonio Mancini's "landscapes" consist of white monochromes, created using the oil-on-canvas technique, on which transcriptions of certain internet addresses stand out. The alphanumeric series correspond to digital images (street view) from Google Maps of specific locations in the city that are significant to the artist's life, but which are also strategic places for understanding the history and urban development of the contemporary city.
Domenico Antonio Mancini’s work directly addresses the reflection on the pictorial representation of the landscape as a traditional linguistic system. He deepens his investigation into pictorial codes, starting from the idea that the complexity of the city—its relationships between center and periphery, the overlapping of individual lives, social and political situations of which the city is both a backdrop and a protagonist—cannot be synthesized on the pictorial surface. Instead, that surface must function as a passage toward the elsewhere.
On the other hand, this also connects to the historical origin of galleries in princely palaces, where paintings were “windows” onto imaginary, elegiac, mythological, exotic, and symbolic places. Through an investigation into the codes of landscape representation and their relationship with 19th-century painting tradition—which continues to collectively shape our imagination—Domenico Antonio Mancini arrives at the narration of the landscape as a stage for History and the city, in the problematic relationship that still ties together the center and the periphery today.

Project exhibited in:

Sensibile Comune, curated by Ilaria Bussoni, Nicolas Martino, Cesare Pietroiusti, Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 2017
Landscapes, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, 2019
Passione, VIII edizione Premio Fondazione VAF, MART, Rovereto - Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel (Germania), 2019
Lowlands, curated by Phroom Magazine, Office Project Room, Milan 2020
La via della seta. Arte e Artisti contemporanei dall’Italia, curated by Angela Tecce, Kyiv History Museum, Kiev (Ucraina); CerModernArts Center, Ankara (Turchia); Tbilisi History Museum, Tblisi (Georgia), 2021
Another world now, curated by Anna Daneri, Francesca Guerisoli e Carlotta Pezzolo, Genoa, 2021
Cutting Clouds, curated by Marta Ferrara and Marta Wróblewska, Madre Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, 2024
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, curated by Luiss Business School curatorial collective, Cosmo Trastevere, Rome, 2024