Miltos Manetas: Internet Pioneer at MAXXI Rome

Miltos Manetas (Athens, 1964), a painter and conceptual artist known for founding the first Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009, is the subject of an exhibition at MAXXI in Rome. His work involves collages of images sourced from the web, assembled like puzzles into time-variable compositions that invite viewers to navigate them as if on a computer. Manetas decodes virtual worlds, creating figurations that appear and disappear in an artistic cycle moving between analog tools, painting, and sculpture. The exhibition offers a window into the digital realm where threads intertwine, tracing paths to the future. Figures play and work with multimedia, unaware protagonists of a contemporary reality seemingly distant from art.