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MICHELA DE MATTEI | PORTFOLIO | selected works 2010|2016
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MICHELA DE MATTEI | PORTFOLIO |
selected works 2010|2016
ESTEE LAUDER - How to speak like president Still from video 2’02, 2015
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ESTEE LAUDER - The fear of mistakes, stills from video 3’57 , 2016
View of the group show Interkontinental, BELMACZ 2016
Estèe Lauder is a Mynah bird rescued in Indiaand living in Gloucester. Since september 2015we hold a conversation on Skype in wich I amtraining her trying to find a common language.the serie of three videos: How to speak like pre-sident, Adapting and the fear of mistake, is theresult of our “ correspondances” through thesoftware.Every video follow the model of an online inte-ractive lesson acting in different ways the de-sire to adapt among humans and animals.
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Innesto 8, round around, ( resIdency 2015)apuLIa Land art festIvaL
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Innesto 8, Round Around, Still from video 1’22, 2015 Apulia Land Art FestivalGraft 8, Round Around, Still from video 1’22”, 2015 Apulia Land Art Festival ‒
Innesto 8, Round Around, legno di quercia su albero di fico, 92x92cm 2015 Apulia Land Art FestivalGraft 8, Round Around, oak wood on fig tree, 92x92cm, 2015 Apulia Land Art Festival
during the residency of Apulia Land Art Festivalin the area of ostuni's vegetable gardens, Mi-chela de Mattei conceived a double interven-tion: according to her specific interest for thestructure of elements, the artist dwelt on theinner shape of the tree trunks and their progres-sive circular growth, ring after ring . The first workis a video showing the hypnotic movement of ahula hoop around the stem of an almond tree;While the second installation is a graft of a woo-den ring into the trunk of a fig tree, which standsalong the path of the gardens. in either case, deMattei suggests a correspondence between thecircular motion of the hoop and the only move-ment allowed to a plant: the loop; imagining inthe video an incessant movement of the hulahoop around the tree, artifice that finds its cry-stallization in the graft intervention. (Saverio Ve-rini)
vogLIatemI perdonare queL pò dI dIsturbo che reco(should you care to forgive What Little disturbance I cause)
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installation view of the exhibition
videostreaming, Ghepardi PNv di verona, 2014for the duration of the exhibition
ingombro#1 (ricordarsi di innaffiare limone) | encumbrance#1 (re-member to water lemon)
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During my solo show at Galleria Ex Elettrofonica, (Rome, IT) I con-ceived for the space a double intervention: a site specific instal-lation of glass sculptures and a video streaming showing in realtime the life of 3 chetaahs insideThe Parco Natura Viva of Ve-rona (IT).I combined for the installation some abstract layers of glass andsome figured objects (U.V collage/bended/blow glasses), sha-pes that I am used to see around me in my studio. Playing withthe trasparency of the material, I tryed to cover the space layerby layer as a painter would do for glazing a canvas.
The live video-streaming was projected on the wall during the 3months (without sound). It was like a landscape-painting but set-ting down every day.The streaming showed a small portion of the huge space thatthe 3 chetaahs inhabit and the animals eventually appeared onthe scene. They had their habits.Through the transparent encumbrances of the sculptures andthrough the video I was looking for two exits from the galleryspace. Looking to the works as staring out the window.
APPArTATe, SMArT PoLo Per L’ArTe coNTeMPorANeAexhibiTioN vieW
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installation view of the exhibition Apparte, Michela de Mattei |Aldo Grazzi, SmArT- Polo per l’arte contemporanea, 2014
insistere e disertare, 2014 carta millimetrata collage su carta110x70insist and disert, 2014 graph paper collages 110x70
restiamo in casa |1|, 2014. rame, legno di rovere 50x38x50
Let’s stay home |1|, 2014, copper, oak wood 50x38x50
Per gravità, ferro vetro, video proiezioni, dimensioni variabili, 2014. Nuova gestione, casalbertone, romabecause of gravity, iron, glass, video projections, variable dimvensions, 2014. Nuova Gestione, casalbertone, roma
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per Gravità, was a response to Sguardo Contemporaneo’s curato-rial project on the neighbourhood of Casalbertone.I approach this district of my own town through a touristic perspec-tive, asking to be hosted, while I was working there, by some residentsof the area.I have been living in 3 different houses looking for some image-mate-rial showing the dynamic connection between the space of the nei-ghbourhood and its people routine. A point that might show thedeep correspondance between the frame and the content.The result of my visit has been both video and sculptural. The videoinstallation shows the takes I shoot indoors, filming some dishes full ofdiluted painting in wich the outside landscape coming from the win-dows was reflecting into. The outside surrounding meeting the liquidinside the plate became a colourful surface representing without anydistance my private journey around the flats of casalbertone and itslandscape.The founded large steel structures are the functional shapes used asmoulding by glassmakers to curve the glass. I combined them withsolid glass aquarium in order to display a pressure, a cause and aconsequence between the two containers.
Projects for still lifes, ruins and natutals architectures
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Landscape as a Social System, Michela de Mattei - Margherita Moscardini - Leonid Tsvetkov, curated by Lucrezia cippitelli Art brussel,young Talent Section, ex elettrofonica Gallery
14 anelli d’olmo, 2012 dimensioni reali |14 elm’s rings, 2012, real size
capacità o incapacità di una natura morta 2012 dimensioni reali, tessiture di ficod’india |capacity or incapacity of a still life 2012, real size, dry prickly pear
Fall’s geometries 2012 real size, leaf, wire
resistenza pittorica 2012, 20x30 cm tessitura di fico d’india e chiodi |Pictorialresistance 2012, 20x30cm, dry prickly pear tisues and nails
Match ruins#2 2013 photo print
Sala Santa rita, innesto#6 ri-orientamento, 2013. installation view
innesto#6, Parco della caffarella, roma 2013, Stampa fotografica | Graft#6, Parco della caffarella,rome 2013, photographic print
detail, innesto#6, ri-orientamento, iron, environmental size
innesto# 6, ri-orientamento is a product of a historical study of theSanta rita hall: the former church that was founded in 1653 in thevicinity of Aracoeli was removed in 1928 to be then rebuilt in 1937-40 in the position where it stands today. during the reconstruction,some references from the original were lost, including the spatialorientation. Michela de Mattei traces the profile of the interior ofthe hall, studying its supporting elements and reconstructs themby rotating the perimeter, not in order to restore its initial design,but to investigate the relationship that binds man to space. Theartist reinterprets the architecture through a subtle interplay ofmaterials such as iron and marble that emerge as graphic signs allowingthe viewer to trace, with transparency, the original reference.The exhibition consists of an environmental sculpture and avideo in which the architectural profiles of the hall become toolsfor understanding the landscape, incorporating it and at thesame time outlining its boundaries. (daniela cotimbo)
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ezra Pound, Metato di Pisa, American remand centre, esperimenti di innesto#1 2010ezra Pound, Metato di Pisa, American remand centre, graft experiment#1, 2010
Joseph beuys, bolognano, esperimenti di innesto#2 | Josephbeuys, bolognano, Graft experiment#2 2011
Pier Paolo Pasolini, idroscalo di ostia, esperimenti di innesto#3 2011 | Pier Paolo Pasolini, idroscalo di ostia, Graft experiment#3 2011
Senza titolo (il postmoderno) 2011-2012 400x320cm, Tubi zincati ½Pollice , legnountitled (the postmodern) 2011-2012, 400x320cm, ½” inch Zinc Tubes, wood
detail, Senza titolo (il postmoderno) 2011-2012 400x320cm, Tubi zincati ½Pollice , legnountitled (the postmodern) 2011-2012, 400x320cm, ½” inch Zinc Tubes, wood
esperimenti d’innesto iN, 2013 Tubi di zinco, suono, sensoreGraft experiment iN, 2010-2013, Zinc tube, sensor device, sound
Graft Experiment is a work grown through different steps in order to un-derstand how I would have been able to position myself and my workregarding the past.
The first step (2010-11) has been going to the places where few of mybig Masters wrote or thought or died deeply.In each site I graft in the ground some recovered water pipes of va-rious size documenting it through a serie of photographs as a manife-sto to Continuity and a concern of dryness. (Ezra Pound, Metato di Pisa, American Remand Centre, graft experiment#1,2010/Beuys, Bolognano, Graft experiment#2 2011/Pier Paolo Pasolini, Idro-
scalo di Ostia, Graft experiment#3 2011)
The second stage Untitled (Postmodernism) is an installation of 160water pipes collected from junk dealers. I organised them in a verticaldrawing, making a sort of wall where every line is combined next tothe other according to the chromatic nuances of the rusts andthrough a geometric effort despite the crooked forms of the pipes(twisted by the force of the water passed through them).Fascinated about the living underground network of a city I imaginedits sudden interruption associating it to the postmodernist feeling of amonumental flood and inability to line up.
The third step is a sound installation. Two zinc pipes are displayed onthe floor, the sound that arises from them is the record of an interviewto Ezra Pound done by Pasolini in 1967, the two poets talk about Italy,about art and about literature. Then Pasolini ended the encounterreading Ezra Pound’s spiritual testament.But in fact the audio is inaudible, it could be perceivable at a certaindistance, because when approaching to the work, through a devicedetector,the bits crash and the audio became an intolerable noise.
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Quando abiti al terzo piano il pavimento è sempre un’illusione 2012 Scultura in rame50x25cm e stampa fotografica | When you live at the third storey, the floor is always an
illusion, copper sculpture and photographic print 2012
installation view district 913 – MAAM, museo dell'altro e dell'altrove di metropoliz (roma)
Piano terra. Piano,Terra. Metropolitz 2013, Alluminio 200x90cm
Man builds stable geometries and structures that are founded on alevel surface. The simple plan of an apartment, modeled on a naturalform, with its raised areas and cavities, reformulates the relationship bet-ween man and nature, juxtaposing languages and otherwise irreconci-lable forms. The task involves making the plan of my house coincide onstones of different shapes in order to observe the possible natural varia-tions in which this space reforms itself.i repeated this same process for the planimetry of the ex factory Fiorucci(Metropoliz) on the occasion of the exhibition district 913. The work tookproportions much larger and was donated to the MAAM, museo dell'altroe dell'altrove di metropoliz (roma)
MicheLA de MATTeiborn in rome(1984),lives and works in London
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interkontinental, belmacz London 2016La Pelle, Project by FoNdAco, officina, brussels 2016rétrospective i : Fail compilation, détail, Paris 2016Feets, don't Fail Me Now, débora delmar corp, Michela de Mattei, Ta-mara henderson and Jeannine han, Paul housley, birgit Jürgenssen,Paul Kindersley, christodoulos Panayioto,renee So. belmacz , London,2015vogliatemi perdonare quel poco di disturbo che reco, ex elettrofonica,roma, 2014incidents of phenomena, Spazio cerere, roma, 2014Appartate, Michela de Mattei ! Aldo Grazzi-smArt Polo per l’arte con-temporanea, roma, 2014Landscape as a Social System, curated by Lucrezia cippitelli, Michelade Mattei - Margherita Moscardini - Leonid Tsvetkov, Art brussel, 2014Art is real – una collezione impermanente, temporary group showa cura di Silvia Litardi e Guendalina Salini 2014 (roma)Nuova Gestione – quartiere di cASAL berToNe, roma 2014iT. Spazi di percezione tra intangibile e tangibile – GNAM - Galleria na-zionale d'artemoderna e contemporanea, 2014 (roma)innesto #6, ri-orientamento | Michela de Mattei – Sala Santa rita,roma, 2013Mostra finalisti TALeNT PriZe 2013 – spazio della casa dell’Architettura,(roma)district 913 – MAAM, museo dell'altro e dell'altrove di metropoliz (roma)Facets of Time – John cabot university, roma, 2013Festival della creatività – nuovo spazio FAcTory, roma, 2013Manufatto in Situ 6 – workshop con raqs Media collective, Foligno,2012Secondo Piano 2011 – open Studios, ex Magazzini di Portonaccio,roma 2011
PhoTo ©Alessandro dandini de SylvaThomas Munns
Sebastiano Luciano
contact:[email protected]+44(0) 7756681000+ 39 3381824670skype Michelademattei
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cité internationale des Arts, Paris - october/March 2015 Apulia Land Art Festival residency curated by i.Gianni, G. Prezioso,S.verini, 2015Special Prize casa dell’Architettura, TALeNT PriZe 2013.Prize Festival della creatività, spazio Factory, MAcro TeSTAccio,romaManufatto in Situ 6, Workshop – raqs Media collective, Foligno 2012
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degree in Philosophy, università la Sapienza di roma, 20082007/2011, Assistant of the artist Giuseppe Gallo
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