Massimiliano Mandas - SENZA TITOLO
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Massimiliano Mandas presents an original acrylic on canvas titled SENZA TITOLO (2025), an orange contemporary work depicting an insect, hand-signed, 28 × 40 cm, Italy, in excellent condition.
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MASSIMILIANO MANDAS
UNTITLED 2025.
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS.
SIGNED ON THE BACK OF THE FRAME.
The work depicts a bee, constructed through an extremely detailed weave of dots, lines and color variations. The insect’s body emerges forcefully from the surface of the canvas, while the background is traversed by numbers, letters, geometric shapes and overlapping signs that create a layered space, almost a system of codes and traces.
The work is part of the research “L’Eredità del Minimo” (The Inheritance of the Minimal), a series in which Massimiliano Mandas turns his gaze toward what is normally considered small, common, or marginal. Insects are not represented as simple naturalistic subjects, but as silent witnesses of a reality that exists independently of our gaze.
In this context, the bee becomes a symbol of persistence, work and daily life. The almost obsessive attention to the anatomical detail is an integral part of the artist’s research: dedicating time to the meticulous construction of a seemingly insignificant being means attributing it a new centrality and acknowledging its value.
The contrast between the precision of the bee and the gestural and numeric background creates a dialogue between order and chaos, nature and language, individual and environment. The surface requires a close-up view: from a distance the presence of the animal emerges, while, when approached, the multitude of signs that build its image is revealed.
The work returns from Cannes, where it was presented as part of the artist’s exhibition pathway, and is now offered on the art market through Catawiki.
Thus it is a work that combines contemporary research, a strong visual identity, and a prior international exhibition trajectory, belonging to a central series in Massimiliano Mandas’s artistic research.
...“Around her, circles and triangles: not merely shapes, but sacred doors. The circle, like the moon, like the eye that sees beyond. The triangle, like the ladder that descends into the well, toward the water, toward the origin.
Who looks enters, descends, listens.
And perhaps, in the deep silence, he still hears the breath of the Goddess"...
MASSIMILIANO MANDAS
UNTITLED 2025.
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS.
SIGNED ON THE BACK OF THE FRAME.
The work depicts a bee, constructed through an extremely detailed weave of dots, lines and color variations. The insect’s body emerges forcefully from the surface of the canvas, while the background is traversed by numbers, letters, geometric shapes and overlapping signs that create a layered space, almost a system of codes and traces.
The work is part of the research “L’Eredità del Minimo” (The Inheritance of the Minimal), a series in which Massimiliano Mandas turns his gaze toward what is normally considered small, common, or marginal. Insects are not represented as simple naturalistic subjects, but as silent witnesses of a reality that exists independently of our gaze.
In this context, the bee becomes a symbol of persistence, work and daily life. The almost obsessive attention to the anatomical detail is an integral part of the artist’s research: dedicating time to the meticulous construction of a seemingly insignificant being means attributing it a new centrality and acknowledging its value.
The contrast between the precision of the bee and the gestural and numeric background creates a dialogue between order and chaos, nature and language, individual and environment. The surface requires a close-up view: from a distance the presence of the animal emerges, while, when approached, the multitude of signs that build its image is revealed.
The work returns from Cannes, where it was presented as part of the artist’s exhibition pathway, and is now offered on the art market through Catawiki.
Thus it is a work that combines contemporary research, a strong visual identity, and a prior international exhibition trajectory, belonging to a central series in Massimiliano Mandas’s artistic research.
...“Around her, circles and triangles: not merely shapes, but sacred doors. The circle, like the moon, like the eye that sees beyond. The triangle, like the ladder that descends into the well, toward the water, toward the origin.
Who looks enters, descends, listens.
And perhaps, in the deep silence, he still hears the breath of the Goddess"...
Details
Artist
Massimiliano Mandas
Sold with frame
No
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
SENZA TITOLO
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Orange
Height
28 cm
Width
40 cm
Depiction/theme
Animals
Style
Contemporary
Period
2020+
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