Denis Mandarino

Denis Mandarino
300px Self-portrait (2006), 50 × 70 cm, acrylic on canvas
Background information
Born	(1964-05-07) May 7, 1964 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Genres	MPB, classical, rock
Instruments	Guitar, bass, acoustic guitar, mandolin
Years active	1983–present
Associated acts	Versatilism, Figurativism, Internet art
Website	www.denismandarino.com
Notable instruments
iGuitar Brian Moore, Variax acoustic guitars

Denis Mandarino (Denis Garcia Mandarino: born May 7, 1964 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, artist and writer, and a disciple of Hans-Joachim Koellreutter in choral conducting and aesthetics.

He proposed a theory about four-dimensional perception, which states the concepts behind the renaissance perspective involving four dimensions instead of three dimensions assigned to it. These studies culminated in the development of the method of the four-dimensional perspective.

Mandarino wrote the Versatilist manifesto (2007).

Versatilism

Main article: Versatilist manifesto

Versatilism is an artistic movement proposed in 2007, from a literary manifesto, with the intention of freeing people from the expert analysis and promoting the practice of art as a form of self-knowledge and spiritual enhancement. In the body of text are present the following aesthetic principles and propositions:

1. Eternal life, the existence of God and the spirit;
2. Untying the artistic practice of the art market and self-centeredness;
3. The search for artistic expressions that promote humanity and society, respecting the present level of consciousness of the artist;
4. Continuously changing level of consciousness and learning process as infinite;
5. The absence of art competitions;
6. Questioning the role of the art critic for the inability to assess the man, his neighbor, in an impartial and timeless.

"New ideas are hard to identify, hard to assimilate, and only detachment may be able to evaluate them in a more open way. When a man assumes the role of giving the verdict about what artists are doing, or the society gives him this role, we are one step closer to repeat the greatest injustices that men of science, philosophy, arts and religion have suffered throughout history." – Interview about the Versatilist Manifesto

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Quadriptych Observation in time (1997), 240 × 160 cm, acrylic on canvas

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Four-dimensional perspective with nine vanishing points. The ninth point is outside the limits of the canvas.

Four-dimensional perspective

After spending four years writing the Theory of four-dimensional perception (1995), Mandarino developed a new method, in a subject for many years stagnant. In the perspective of four dimensions, the observer is not a static element (fixed point), as one sees in traditional processes.

In Observation in time (1997) can be found nine different vanishing points and horizon lines, representing different moments of an observer who turns his head and moves vertically and horizontally.

This kind of painting admits curved or spherical canvas.

Discography

The discography includes the following albums:

1. Volume 1 – 2003
2. Tributo – 2004
3. Peças para Violão – 2005
4. Instrumental – 2006
5. Musa – 2007
6. Renascentieval – 2008
7. A Sociedade do Rei e o Xadrez – 2009
8. Um toque de humor – 2009
9. Improvisos, variações, releituras... – 2010
10. Reconstruções – 2011
11. Tributo 2 – 2012
12. Versátil – 2013

Gallery

Portraits

• Avó do artista - detalhe.jpg

  Grandma (detail), 50 × 70 cm, oil on canvas

• Sala das modelos.jpg

  Room of models, 80 × 120 cm, oil on canvas

• Paisagem em azul e laranja.jpg

  Landscape in blue and orange, 80 × 120 cm, oil on canvas

• Retrato de Samia.jpg

  Samia's portrait, acrylic on canvas

Guardians

• Beduínos.jpg

  Bedouins (guardians series), 50 × 70 cm, acrylic on canvas

• Cavaleiro Guardiões.jpg

  Knight (guardians series), 50 × 70 cm, acrylic on canvas

• Lanceiros de Maria.jpg

  Mary's Lancers (guardians series), 50 × 70 cm, acrylic on canvas

• Soldados Romanos.jpg

  Roman Soldiers (guardians series), 50 × 70 cm, acrylic on canvas

External links

• Full transcription, (in English).