Lucas Mancione draws. Portraits of chimerical animals in charcoal, black chalk, suave and nervous, the gesture is free. Lucas Mancione draws. By small, tight, fine and precise lines such as applied and transferred children's drawings. The material chosen, the layer precisely accentuates this ambiguity of the postponement. But to look at it closely, we perceive all the mischief that it deploys to lose us in conjectures. If the contours are sharp and clear, the compositions further scramble the codes, mix the environments and the space-time frame. There lies Lucas' great game, the composition, the decomposition. He is a musician, and this practice can be seen in his plastic work. Orangina bottles sit perched on the branches of a tree. The lunar landscapes he represents are as much from Borgesian literature as from vinyl covers from the 70s, Moondog, Pink Floyd or even Sun Ra ... Certainly a remnant of his years of companionship with Roland Flexner and the American freedom of the years. 90. Lucas Mancione superimposes these layers to accentuate the improbability of encounters, the fruit of the transparencies of the leaves placed one on top of the other. Lucas Mancione's drawing is like his music, vibrant, multiple, animal.
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