"Monastero La Foresta" curated by Riccardo Lisi
Miltos Manetas is a Greek-born painter, conceptual artist and theorist whose work explores the representation and the aesthetics of the information society. Manetas is the Founder of NEEN (the first art movement of the 21st century), a pioneer of art-after-videogames (MACHINIMA) and an instigator of Postinternet and NFT. In 2009 he was invited by the Venice Biennial to create its first INTERNET PAVILION. In 2014, invited by Rome's Swiss Institute to propose a tendency that would bring Swiss art to the digital Age, Manetas introduced the concept of ÑEWPRESSIONISM which he went on developing on Social Media using his techniques of Overeality and Metascreen. Manetas used DOCUMENTA 14 to re-enforce his concept of MEDIOSUD in 2019 presented his NEOUMILE Modus Operandi at Rome's MACRO . In 2018, Rome's MAXXI realized Manetas' INTERNET PAINTINGS, a three months performative exhibition. According to LEV MANOVICH, Manetas' art can be placed within a well-established tradition in modern painting (representing modern people in their particular modern settings). According to NICOLAS BOURRIAUD Manetas' work belongs to the domain of RELATIONAL AESTHETICS and POST-PRODUCTION
»I have no time for success and money«
»How do you program life? By painting it!«
»Come perfezionare una pittura? Guardandola!«
»Come programmare la vita? Dipingendola«
»How to optimize a painting? By looking at it!«
In 1985 I left Athens. The Art-school there wouldn't accept me. "Don't lose your time, you have no talent" one of the professors said- I think his name was Tetsis or Kokkinidis . Or maybe was Yiannis Moralis who 40 years earlier, at the eve of his professor career had refused Jannis Kounellis: "Don´t try Jannis, you have no talent."
In 1986 I made a 3Dtree-installation at Brera (the artschool in Milan) and I asked my girlfriend to perform in it.
I also made a drawing with a Sad Tree.
“Fifteen notebooks with dots for children installed at the Cafe Pallas in Karditsa, Greece
at Karditsa
