Roberto Mangou
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Roberto Mangou, also known as Roberto Mangu Quesada, and Roberto Mangú, is a European painter, born in 1948 and raised in France, from Italian and Spanish descent. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts in architecture, Mangú has lived and worked in Paris, Milan, Sevilla, La Rochelle, Toulouse before moving to Brussels where he currently resides.
Though he has also worked successfully as an architect, building notably an internationally acclaimed villa in the Parisian suburbs, Mangú is first and foremost a painter.
Because of the vitality shown in his earlier paintings notably "Virée sur la côte" or "Taureau mécanique" , his extraordinary knowledge and skillful use of colours especially intense reds (cf Lola), his work is sometimes cited as belonging to one of the following movements: neo-expressionism nouveaux fauves or Transavantgarde.
Yet, Mangú's work is far too original and personal to be so easily classified. Over time, he has shifted to darker colours and used a variety of techniques, working notably sometimes in negative: the object is drawn by taking off (rather than adding) colour through painting large surfaces in white on a coloured background (the "Pan y Vino" series).
There are recurring themes in the work of Mangú: standing men, monoliths, saints, which all seem to converge in his large masterpiece, a dark "Saint-Georges".
[edit] Main exhibitions before 2000
- 1983, Georges Lavrov, Paris,
- 1986, Ontriveros, Madrid,
- 1988 and 1998, Georges Fall, Paris
[edit] Bibliography
- Roberto Mangú has been the subject of academic work by researchers at La Sorbonne.
- Gérard George Lemaire dans "9 artistes à Milan aujourdh'hui"
- Opus International N° 119 Paris mai juin 1990
- Mangú. Le passager des étoiles, Jean-François Gautier and Dominique Stella, Mazzotta 1998.
