Tony Matelli Chicago, IL, USA, b. 1971
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Matelli has gained recognition for his hyper-realistic artworks, which utilize various techniques and materials.
Закончил Институт искусства и дизайна в г. Милуоки (США) со степенью бакалавра изящных искусств и Академию искусств в г. Кранбрук (Канада) со степенью магистра изящных искусств.
“Реализм никогда не был моей главной целью. Мой подход к созданию скульптур всегда заключался в ясности и точности сюжета. Я хочу, чтобы человек изначально воспринимал объект, а не “читал его описание” – чтобы люди прочли историю в самой работе.”
– Тони Мателли
Реалистичные работы Мателли, выполненные с использованием различных техник и материалов — от окрашенной бронзы до зеркал, силикона и найденных объектов — изображают человеческие фигуры, животных, растения и случайные объекты. Размещенные в необычной обстановке и словно вырванные из контекста привычной среды, работы вызывают глубокие эмоции у зрителя, исследуют темы уязвимости, одиночества, стойкости и сопротивления окружающим обстоятельствам. Неизменная борьба юмора и пессимизма, присущая всем работам Мателли, — это реакция на сложность внутренних противоречий на фоне абсурдности мелких повседневных конфликтов.
“The realism of my work was never the point. My approach to object making has always been about clarity and precision. The depictions are meant to be fairly seamless. I want someone to initially experience the subject rather than ‘reading’ it. I want them absorbed in the work. Therefore, I feel the presentation of the idea needs be fairly neutral or even artless.”
– Tony MatelliSelected public and private collections:
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (Aarhus, Denmark)
Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishøj, Denmark)
Bergen Kunstmuseum (Bergen, Norway)
Bonnier Collection (Stockholm, Sweden)
The Davis Museum (Wellesley, MA, USA)
Fundacion La Caixa (Madrid, Spain)
FRAC Bordeaux (France)
Mudam Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Musee d’Arte Contemporain (Montreal, Canada)
Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany)
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, New Zealand)
Museum Voorlinden (Wassenaar, Netherlands)
Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa, OK, USA) -
Works
Tony Matelli Chicago, IL, USA, b. 1971
Meat head. Collage. (Diptych), 2008Photographic collage, foil, cardboard116 × 79 cm – each partFurther images
In 2008, Tony Matelli unveiled Meat Head, a sculpture and collage that lays bare the tension between decay and regeneration, vulnerability and transformation. The piece confronts viewers with an unsettling...In 2008, Tony Matelli unveiled Meat Head, a sculpture and collage that lays bare the tension between decay and regeneration, vulnerability and transformation. The piece confronts viewers with an unsettling fusion of human features and raw, decomposing matter, challenging them to look beyond the surface—both literally and metaphorically. Its stark realism elicits both fascination and discomfort, evoking the fragile impermanence of the human condition.
“My idea of self-portraiture has always been kind of loose. I rendered myself and began putting my image in the work, and then I put approximations of my image in the work. And there are contradictions embedded in Meat Head. It is a story about doom and hope; there is decay and gore, but there is also new life and hope represented in the maggots—a kind of resurrection story.” — Tony Matelli
Exhibitions
Tony Matelli. Survival. Gary Tatintsian Gallery. Sep–Nov 2008
Publications
Catalogue ‘Tony Matelli. Survival’. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, 2008. Part 2 / pp. 78Exhibitions-
Naturally Naked
Group Exhibition 15 Aug - 28 Dec 2019 -
Mutated Reality
Group Exhibition 27 Nov 2015 - 2 Mar 2016 -
Olaf Breuning, Tony Matelli, John Miller
Group Exhibition 21 Mar - 15 Jun 2014 -
Tony Matelli. The Idiot
Personal exhibition 23 Sep - 28 Dec 2009 -
Tony Matelli. Survival
Personal Show 18 Sep - 30 Dec 2008 -
Bad Planet
Group Exhibition 15 Apr - 14 May 2008
Publications-
Mutated Reality
2016Paperback, 64 pagesRead more
Publisher: Gary Tatintsian Gallery
ISBN: 978-5-9906881-3-1
Dimensions: 220×290 mm -
Olaf Breuning, Tony Matelli, John Miller
2014Paperback, 128 pagesRead more
Publisher: Gary Tatintsian Gallery
ISBN: 978-5-9906881-4-8
Dimensions: 220 × 290 mm -
Tony Matelli. Survival 1
2008Paperback, 32 pagesRead more
Publisher: Gary Tatintsian Gallery
Dimensions: 220 x 290 мм -
Tony Matelli. Survival 2
2008Paperback, 96 pagesRead more
Publisher: Gary Tatintsian Gallery
Dimensions: 220 x 290 mm -
We can do it
2005Paperback, 50 pagesRead more
Publisher: Gary Tatintsian Gallery
Dimensions: 220 x 290 mm
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