Tucked away in a tiny room at the back of the Fitzwilliam Museum, past the gaggles of schoolchildren being marched around ancient statues and paintings, Mannocci shows how simple monotypes can be eerily enchanting. Yes, most of the titles of his prints sound like GCSE works by angsty emo teenagers- ‘I change but I cannot die’ - and yes, he falls into the trap of using ‘inkjet collages’ in an attempt to make the work more ‘down with the kids,’ but there is an amazing simplicity to the exhibition.

Each print is a snapshot in time, enhanced by the fact that monotypes can only be used once as the stencil is usually destroyed in the process. Classical images are modernised by Mannocci as he transports figures of angels and horses into his own black and white world. Scenes like the one in ‘There were clouds in the sky,’ of three silhouetted figures walking into the distance allow you to create a picture of the entire scene in your mind, the prints acting as a prompt for your rarely-used imagination (we are at Cambridge, after all).

I could go into the links with Veneziano’s Annunciation engravings or the intricacies of the monotype printing process (which is helpfully detailed as part of the exhibition) but most of the monotypes stand on their own as interesting, engaging, and sometimes disturbing images, often ripped from their original context. Though the exhibition is just one room, it means that you don’t have an opportunity to get bored of Mannocci’s method and it becomes a bite-size transportation to a world of Clouds and Myths, albeit with a load of yawning ten-year-olds who, for some reason, don’t appear to feel the same way.