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October Issue
2009
Ann Long Fine
Art in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Leo Mancini-Hresko
Ann
Long Fine Art in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibit, Toscana:
Recent Work by Leo Mancini-Hresko, on view from Oct. 2 - 31,
2009.
Born in 1981, Mancini-Hresko was enthralled with various visual
arts from a young age. Growing up in Boston, he attended
classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Rhode Island
School of Design. In 2000, after his first year studying Fine
Arts and Graphic Design at the Art Institute of Boston, he enrolled
in a study abroad program in Florence, Italy. During his year
in Italy, Mancini-Hresko chose to drop his studies and stay abroad,
ever searching for a more fitting training. Luckily, he stumbled
across the Florence Academy of Art, where he began studies in
spring of 2001.
Drawing on his classical education, Mancini-Hresko paints traditional subjects using Old Master techniques yet keeps his work modern in both design and vision. He moves beyond simply painting the objects to expressing the space between objects with fleeting colors and light effects. He also looks to calligraphy for inspiration as searches for a personal "handwriting" with the brush.
For this exhibition, Mancini-Hresko focused on landscape painting inspired by the particularly beautiful weather in Tuscany this year. He paints only from life, believing "there is more than enough inspiration in the world around us; nature has its own stories to tell without our impositions." In addition to Tuscan landscapes and cityscapes, still life and figure work painted in his Florentine studio will be exhibited.
Mancini-Hresko discusses his approach to painting: "The most important element in painting is the creation of imagery. A beautiful image must be considered in composition, color, drawing and execution; it is not enough, however, to just make an image including all four elements. Already that is well difficult. A painting should be painted, you must see the process, the brushstrokes, creation of the ground, glazes and impastos. No two inches of any picture should be treated the same. What always drew me to painting was the contrast between rough and smooth, harsh and subtle. That is where beauty is. I hope to draw the viewer in, to see the world a moment in the way I do."
Mancini-Hresko has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and remains at the Florence Academy where he is currently Director of the Drawing for the Sculpture program. This marks his second solo exhibition with Ann Long Fine Art.
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check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
843/577-0447 or visit (www.annlongfineart.com).
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