I was born and raised in a family of art collectors who exposed me to the beauty of art from an early age. Growing up in such a nurturing artistic environment, I opened myself to the arts, embracing and experiencing it through different lenses -- as a student, collector, curator, art dealer, and artist.
My art depicts a surreal vision of the world and its history, communicating my understanding and evolution as a human being in this life. I draw my inspiration from a life that I live fully, I listen to what life tells me and I paint freely. I look for symbols and messages to decode and the indecipherable language that Nature whispers to us.
My paintings are touched by my emotions, my beliefs, and my dissents, I use my surrealist visions to create mirror images of peace and war, parallel reality representing our human duality.
Painting is my journey through life!
By: Antonella Manganelli
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Antonella moved to the U.S. in 1999 from Italy, she lives in Reston, Virginia, where she paints and works from her home.
Her art reflects the surreal vision of her world that she explores traveling among Europe, North and Central America, Canada, and Asia. She has exhibited her art throughout Italy in Naples, Rome, and Milan, and in the U.S. in Northern VA, Maryland, DC, and North Carolina. Her artworks are in private collections in Italy and the USA, and the permanent collection of the Italian Museum in Washington DC
Antonella is one of the co-directors of the Art4US Cooperative and is an active board member of the League of Reston Artists, for which she has curated and judged many exhibitions.
Since 2002, she and her husband have owned an antiquarian rare art book company, Marninart. Marninart specializes in rare editions of art books and modern and contemporary art, particularly 20th-century masters. Antonella has curated dozens of art and book exhibitions, including as co-owner and Curatorial Director of Marninart Gallery on 7th Street Washington DC from 2002-2005.