Xavier Robles de Medina
Luigi Mangione is charged with murder as an act of terrorism in CEO’s death, NPR, 17 December 2024, 2025

In All the Rage, the artist’s forthcoming solo exhibition with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, the coloured pencil renderings of Luigi Mangione form a central axis of the project. Far from immediate impressions, these drawings are slow, meticulous constructions in which time accumulates through deliberate recalibration rather than spontaneous gesture. Mangione appears not as a monumental figure but as someone suspended between presence and erasure, shaped by the pressures of late capitalism. The artist’s refusal of speed, with each pencil mark resisting demands for productivity, circulation, and spectacle, gives the portraits a political charge. Mangione’s likeness slips between recognition and dissolution, embodying precarity and systemic stasis; instead of offering stable representation, the drawings become meditations on fragility, hesitation, and the tension between visibility and disappearance.