Roberto Mannino

TU Rome, Professor of Visual Arts

Roberto Mannino
Flaky Dreams 1 
Handmade linen and cotton pulp painting, pigments
43” x 16” 
2023

Why did I invite Antonio Tamilia?

I’ve chosen to invite Antonio Tamilia, with whom I share a studio since 1996 in a very large, former game room in the Pigneto area. We did meet in the early eighties as young printmakers, both fascinated by black and white intaglio practice. In 1990 we were both selected for an exhibit at the Palazzo Esposizioni as Young Artists under 35 in Rome and our mutual esteem for each other’s artwork grew stronger. This twenty-seven years old studio sharing has cemented our friendship and developed into reciprocal confidence in our common working activity.  

Tamilia is mainly an abstract, expressionist painter, working on large scale canvases, wood and paper; his main prerogative consists in multilayering paint stratifications, often melted color waxes and pastels, with attention to the interplay of glazing and opaque areas. I would define his work as gestural and material oriented, with occasional figurative memories. 

Antonio Tamilia
Untitled
Pigments and waxes on wood
40” x 40”
2019

Meet the Artists

  • Faculty

    Roberto Mannino is an Italian /American artist and art educator living and working in Rome. Holds a BFA in Sculpture from RISD (1980) in Providence, RI, and a Sculpture Fine Art Degree (1990) from the Rome Academy of Fine Art. He currently teaches at Temple University Abroad, at Loyola JFRC, at the Pantheon Institute in Rome and at the Rome Municipal Art School. His work has explored the boundaries of handmade paper creations since 1995, developing a personal, process-oriented approach to the medium. His artistic production varies from site-specific Installations to relief, pictorial works and printmaking projects.

  • Invited Artist

    Antonio Tamilia, born in Rome in 1957, continues to live and work in the city. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in museum and galleries across Italy and abroad, including:

    Solo exhibitions: Galleria II Segno, Rome; Galleria il Ponte, Rome; Pino Molica Gallery, Rome - New York; Change+partner Gallery, Rome.

    Collective Exhibitions: Rome; Villa Brandi, University of Siena; University of Rome laboratory museum; Civic Museum, Termoli; S. Gabriele Sacred Art Biennial, Teramo; Cassero Fortress, Grosseto; Polish Institute, Rome