Manuel Capaccioli
Preview Catalogue - Io rallenterò il tempo (I will slow down time), 2026
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Email: manuelcapaccioli.art@gmail.com
Web Site: www.manuelcapaccioli.com
Studio: Arezzo, 52100, Tuscany, Italy
Io rallenterò il tempo
(I will slow down time)
(2026)
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Io rallenterò il tempo (I will slow down time) is a series of ten oil and charcoal paintings on canvas that investigates the relationship between memory, identity, and transformation.
The series originated from observing a gravestone in a small rural cemetery. The photographic portrait and biographical details of the deceased, worn away by the passage of time, have almost completely disappeared. This gradual erasure becomes the starting point for a reflection on the difficulty of preserving continuity with oneself as time, experience, and expectations continuously reshape us.
The deterioration of memory is approached as an inevitable process. The recurring reference to stone throughout the series reaches its conclusion in the final painting, which reproduces the same gravestone that inspired the project, replacing the deceased's face with my own. The sequence thus assumes a circular narrative structure: each image appears to lead inevitably towards that final work, suggesting a slow erosion of individual memory.
“I will slow down time” takes the form of an impossible declaration, reflecting on the shared destiny of every identity: to be continually rewritten, transformed, and forgotten, in an ongoing redefinition of the self through time. It creates a suspended space in which to explore what remains when time alters, wears away, or erases the traces of our existence.
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Silenzi (Silences) 2026
oil and charcoal on canvas 110 × 80 cm 43 5/16 × 31 1/2 inches
1.700 €
Status: Available from October
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Silenzi (Silences) depicts a man's suit and a woman's dress hanging inside the same wardrobe, facing opposite directions and separated by an empty space that prevents them from meeting.
Through the absence of the human figure, the work uses clothing as traces of identity and as surrogate presences. The physical proximity of the garments suggests a shared domestic space and everyday life, while their opposing orientation reveals a growing emotional distance, making the accumulation of silence visible.
Briciole (Crumbs) 2026
oil and charcoal on canvas 80 x 110 cm 31 1/2 x 43 5/16 inches
1.700 €
Status: Available from October - Submitted for competition *
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Briciole (Crumbs) depicts a bouquet of flowers placed among garbage bags. The work originates from the juxtaposition of two elements belonging to opposing symbolic worlds: on one hand, the flower, traditionally associated with care, affection, and celebration; on the other, waste—what is discarded, forgotten, or stripped of value.
The painting invites viewers to question the mechanisms through which we assign meaning to things, reflecting on the fear of no longer being able to recognise beauty and poetry in everyday life, and on the subtle boundary separating what we consider precious from what we are willing to abandon.
L’arredo (The furnishings) 2026
oil and charcoal on canvas 110 × 80 cm 43 5/16 × 31 1/2 inches
1.700 €
Status: Available from October - Submitted for competition *
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L'arredo (The furnishings) portrays me inside my apartment, transforming a familiar domestic environment into the symbolic representation of an inner landscape.
The home becomes a mental enclosure, where thought gradually comes to prevail over lived experience. Within this context, the body slowly loses its centrality and merges with the surrounding furniture, becoming a passive presence, almost an extension of the space itself.
Girotondo 2026
oil and charcoal on canvas 110 × 80 cm 43 5/16 × 31 1/2 inches
1.700 €
Status: Available from October
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In Girotondo, I depict myself lying on a bed in a disordered posture. The body occupies the space in a state of abandonment that contrasts with the dynamism evoked by both the pose and the title, creating a tension between movement and stillness.
The work uses the children's circle game, traditionally associated with movement and continuity, as a metaphor for life and its relentless succession of experiences, demands, and transformations. In contrast to this dynamic, the figure chooses immobility, expressing a state of exhaustion that interrupts the rhythm of action and participation.
Il funambolo (The tightrope walker) 2026
oil and charcoal on canvas 80 x 110 cm 31 1/2 x 43 5/16 inches
1.700 €
Status: Available from October - Submitted for competition *
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Il funambolo (The tightrope walker) portrays me sitting on the edge of a balcony in a position suspended between stability and danger. The figure assumes the role of the tightrope walker, evoking the idea of an equilibrium that is constantly being negotiated. The balcony thus becomes a liminal space, a threshold that both separates and connects different dimensions, from the economic to the emotional and psychological.
The composition focuses on a condition of suspension, in which movement appears restrained and every possibility remains open. Precarity is not presented as an exceptional event, but as a structural condition of existence, accompanying the individual's relationship with the present and with what lies ahead.
La cura (The cure) 2026
oil and charcoal on canvas 110 × 80 cm 43 5/16 × 31 1/2 inches
1.700 €
Status: Available from October - Submitted for competition *
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La cura (The cure) originates from a self-portrait in which I embrace myself. The work stages a gesture associated with protection, acceptance, and the possibility of establishing a caring relationship with one's inner self.
The embrace becomes the representation of an attempt at reconciliation with oneself, connected to self-forgiveness and the search for a form of acceptance of one's own vulnerabilities. At the same time, the construction of the image introduces a tension, suggesting that this aspiration may remain unfulfilled or belong more to desire than to lived experience.
Aspettando il nulla (Waiting for nothing) 2026
oil and charcoal on canvas 110 × 80 cm 43 5/16 × 31 1/2 inches
1.700 €
Status: Available from October - Submitted for competition *
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Aspettando il nulla (Waiting for nothing) originates from observing the reflection of my shadow at the entrance of a workplace. The work uses the shadow as a symbolic device to reflect on the relationship between identity, time, and labour.
The figure never appears directly but manifests itself through its reflection, suggesting both belonging to and distance from the represented space. The entrance to the workplace becomes a threshold—a boundary within which time changes its nature.
The work reflects on how material necessity can transform work into the principal gravitational centre of existence, until lived time becomes indistinguishable from working time. From this perspective, everything outside the workplace risks being reduced to a period of waiting, measured only by the return to productivity.
Assenza (Absence) 2026
oil and charcoal on canvas 110 × 80 cm 43 5/16 × 31 1/2 inches
1.700 €
Status: Available from October
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Assenza (Absence) depicts an apartment building observed through a closed window. Three separate scenes unfold behind the building's windows: a dance, a toast, and an intimate encounter. These episodes acquire a symbolic value, evoking experiences associated with spontaneity, togetherness, and participation in life.
The composition establishes a distance between the observer and what is being observed. The window becomes an element of separation, transforming these scenes into images accessible to the eye but not to direct experience. In relation to the title, the absence does not concern what is happening inside the building, but rather the condition of the person who observes without taking part.
The work addresses the sense of detachment that can emerge in the face of moments perceived as meaningful, questioning what it means to feel excluded from what appears to give value to existence. Through this perspective, the painting reflects on the difficulty of fully inhabiting the present and on the fear that time may pass without allowing genuine participation in lived experience.
Corpi (Bodies) 2026
oil and charcoal on canvas 80 x 110 cm 31 1/2 x 43 5/16 inches
1.700 €
Status: Available from October - Submitted for competition *
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Corpi (Bodies) depicts a series of empty alcoholic beverage bottles, transformed through painting into presences that evoke the physicality of the human body. Their surfaces are rendered using the same technique I employ to paint human skin, giving the bottles an organic and vulnerable quality.
The presence of a fly resting on one of the bottles introduces an additional symbolic layer, evoking ideas of decomposition, mortality, and transience. The bottles therefore cease to function as ordinary objects and become metaphors for the fragility of the human condition.
Death is presented as a latent presence that inhabits matter and reveals its ephemeral nature. From this tension emerges an ambivalent feeling in which fascination and unease coexist without resolution, reflecting on the vulnerability of existence and on the complex relationship each individual maintains with their own finitude.
Senza titolo (Untitled) 2026
oil and charcoal on canvas 80 x 110 cm 31 1/2 x 43 5/16 inches
1.900 €
Status: Available from October - Submitted for competition *
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This artwork concludes the Io rallenterò il tempo (I will slow down time) series while simultaneously constituting its conceptual point of origin. It is presented without title or signature, embodying the idea of the gradual erosion of individual memory.
The painting depicts a gravestone bearing my own ceramic portrait and personal details (the date of death corresponds to the exact date on which the painting—and therefore the project—was completed). Its surface shows signs of deterioration that progressively erode the legibility of both the face and the name, rendering them almost invisible. This process forms the core of a reflection on the relationship between identity, time, and transformation that runs throughout the entire series.
The work focuses on the tension between permanence and dissolution, questioning the ways in which identity is constructed, preserved, and gradually transformed or erased. It is an investigation into the process of change that ultimately leads us to become unrecognisable, remaining anonymous even to ourselves.
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Email: manuelcapaccioli.art@gmail.com
Web Site: www.manuelcapaccioli.com
Studio: Arezzo, 52100, Tuscany, Italy
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