Maria Carla Mancinelli

Maria Carla Mancinelli, (Rome, 1961), is a painter and sculptor. She works in Bracciano. Her art follows three main strands, human depiction, landscapes and light. Her human figures, meager and essential, tell of a worn species, reduced to the bone, and the precariousness of the human condition. His technique is marked by continuous experimentation with materials, acrylics, earths, paper, wood, fabric, plaster, bitumen, iron, waxes, marble dust and especially cement.

Opera

Noli me tangere

The installation depicts the well-known episode narrated in the Gospel of John (20:11-18) in which Mary Magdalene encounters the risen Christ from the tomb mistaking him for a gardener: once she recognizes him she tries to touch him, but is admonished, "Do not hold me back! For I have not yet ascended to the Father." Jesus, already sublimated in his divine essence, invites Magdalene not to "withhold" human substance, alluding to the hope of renewed contact with the divine beyond creaturely limits.

Edited by

Alexander Cremona