BABILONIA ARTE - Manar Alani The Artist of Italian Frescoes

Manar Al Ani Manar Al Ani was born in Baghdad from a family of teachers that educated their son to the beauty of arts and culture. The two professors raise Manar in the cradle of Indo-European history, in the city of the One Thousand and One Nights, in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates. This abundance of Art and Poetry forms his artistic and histrionic character and he finds this wealth again in Rome, where he arrives at the age of 19, after fleeing from Saddam Hussein’s regime looking for freedom and democracy. In the 80’s Navona Square is a breeding ground of artists, many of which are Iraqi, and it is here that Manar begins his road, making the best of his talent and his artistic spirit. He designs a collection of luxury watches that will enter the homes of many collectionists and begins his road of serial Art. From this moment on, after meeting many young artists from the Academy of Arts, he has an inclination for designing and realizing hand made Works of Art in limited copies, similar but never the same. Thus Babilonia Arte is born, 5 art galleries in northern Italy that produced and sold the serial Art designed by Manar. In the beginning of the 90’s Manar falls in love with the technique of the fresco and the fresco tear, an ancient method for recovering and restoring frescoes. The second phase of Babilonia Arte begins, and the first preview of frescoes starts in Borken, thanks to the help of the friend and art dealer Gerda Sibelt: it is an enormous success, almost everything is sold out within the first day. Thus Manar began to study original subjects for serial art pieces and at the same time creates his team of artists with which he realizes frescoes for houses and palaces first in Europe and then in the world. While the paintings are produced with the contemporary concept of Andy Warhol “Pop Art”, the large frescoes produced on request in private residences are unique and inspired by a modern Raffaello school, given the classic subjects. This is how pictorial pieces of art are born, that become heritage of the world, printed on posters, on placemats, a true viral art that has it’s origins in communication and in Pop Art. The popularity and fortune of the original all Italian invention of the “serial frescoes” that have been exposed in Art Shows from Europe to Japan is Manar Al Ani’s credit. Original subjects such as elegant lemon plants, neoclassical adaptations, Caryatidors or the beautiful Sibylon a red background are by now widespread in all art catalogues, numbered originals or copies inspired by the works of Manar. As all artists, Manar has his own signature style that is an intense red that his team of artists calls “Manar Red”. Hundreds of artists have passed from the Babilonia Arte workshop and the very best of these artists are now members of Manar’s Team. Now that he has almost abandoned serial production of frescoes, Manar’s main activity is the designing, planning and coordination of great works, commissioned by architects and private patrons. With his “all Italian” team, he has decorated in the entire world mansions, hotels, castles, regal and presidential residences. Dostoevskij’s idiot said that “beauty will save the world”, and if this is true then we should thank Manar Al Ani, citizen of the world, for having exported the Italian Art of the fresco and having made the world more beautiful. He says: “… I simply offer emotions to embellish the homes of people with good taste”

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