Antonino Mancuso Fuoco (1969-1996) was a well-known Sicilian naïf painter who lived in Capizzi near Messina. In his paintings he documented the peasant and pastoral world of his village, sometimes composing entire pictorial sequences on themes like the harvest. The author of this essay proposes a reading of all his works through their sociological and anthropological implications. Mancuso Fuoco’s painting proves to be a true ‘mnemonic atlas’ of moments of the community fabric, from which the themes of landscape and territory emerge, key topoi for understanding the twentieth- century events in Sicily and probably in the whole south.

Lo spleen rurale di Mancuso Fuoco

Pier Paolo Zampieri
2019-01-01

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Antonino Mancuso Fuoco (1969-1996) was a well-known Sicilian naïf painter who lived in Capizzi near Messina. In his paintings he documented the peasant and pastoral world of his village, sometimes composing entire pictorial sequences on themes like the harvest. The author of this essay proposes a reading of all his works through their sociological and anthropological implications. Mancuso Fuoco’s painting proves to be a true ‘mnemonic atlas’ of moments of the community fabric, from which the themes of landscape and territory emerge, key topoi for understanding the twentieth- century events in Sicily and probably in the whole south.
2019
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