THE CUT, THE GRAFT, THE CASTLE, Museo Civico Castelbuono, August 4th 2022 / October 31th 2022. Series of six ceramic sculptures painted with organic material and wall painting.

Mangano & van Rooy have developed a complex experimental process around the use of both organic and inorganic waste materials, whether to fabricate sculpture varnishes, to produce the wall painting intrinsic to this project or to give birth to a range of fantastical forms. Animals are spliced with anomalous beings; liminal spaces hover between rationalist architecture and the warrens of forest creatures. This series of imaginary elements continually recalls both archaic and modern forms, from the anthropomorphic objects of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights to avant- garde architecture of the nineteenth century.

Photography © Robert Goodman