Snapshot
Angelo Mosca’s paintings present simple images created with spare paint that is often cut with slanting, irregular takes triggering an unexpected dynamism in the stillness of their scenes. But it is the sensation of
belonging that moves the viewer. It is the sense of rapidity with which the gaze, the lens, has captured the scene that determines the perception rather than the banality of the locations. In the two pictures Living in the East-End, it is precisely the variation on how the scenes are captured,
between the one with the character who is telephoning and the one without that transports us into the temporary dimension of the place. If one thinks that all this is owed to the photographic matrix of the image, then not enough consideration is being given to the capacity of emotional
involvement that paintings of such apparent fragility as Mosca’s can still induce today. The red stain, the black one, the seats of the chairs and the top of the table, the flowers and the curtains, are all details of a snapshot with high pictorial content.
— Raffaele Gavarro


Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: 404, Naples; 2002: Jan Wagner, Berlin;
2001: Ronnie, Chieti, Italy; 2000: Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Italy.
Selected group exhibitions: Mostra numero 3, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Italy; Il Paese delle Meraviglie, Palazzo della Duchessa, Miglianico, Italy; 2000: Universe, Platform, London; 1999: The Dream Machine, Jan Wagner, Berlin; Atlante, Masedu, Sassari, Italy; 1998: Lady D, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy.