MEGALOGRAFIE
Solo Exhibition by Ivan Mangov
09.04.2025 - 09.29.2025
Curated by Sveva Manfredi Zavaglia, Nataša Radojević
OPENING
September 4, 2025, AT 6:00pm
Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Galleria delle Carrozze
Via Cavour 9, Florence
Aria Art Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Ivan Mangov, which will open on September 4 at the Galleria delle Carrozze of the historic Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence. The exhibition is presented by the Consulate of the Republic of Serbia in Florence, under the patronage of the Metropolitan City of Florence, and will remain open to the public until September 29.
Curated by Sveva Manfredi Zavaglia and Nataša Radojević, the exhibition marks a significant moment in the artistic evolution of the Serbian-born, Rome-based artist, whose work stands out for its profound reflection on the materiality of painting and the relationship between image and time, creating an atemporality of gazes.
In the archaeological tradition, megalographies are pictorial cycles with monumental figures, often life-sized, such as those found in the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii. Partly inspired by the monumentality and fragility of the Pompeian megalographies, Mangov creates works that fuse matter and memory into large-scale pictorial compositions with a powerful visual presence. The core of the exhibition consists of fourteen large-scale monumental portraits, executed in oil on canvas and produced using a personal and complex technique he describes as “composite under-painting.” Through an intense layering of pigments, the pictorial matter pulses beneath the visible surface, suggesting a hidden, living reality that eludes immediate perception.
Art critic Domenico de Chirico describes Mangov’s work as an “audacious opening,” capable of translating into intense chromatic sensations. Matter thus becomes a visual, almost geological sign that bears witness to our time, suspended between a sense of archaeological nostalgia and the dynamic energy of contemporary stream of consciousness.
Opening hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11:00am-1:00pm | 4:00-8:00pm
Wednesday Closed
Free entry
Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Galleria delle Carrozze
Via Cavour 9, Florence
In collaboration with WHY NAT