Bio:
Italian artist Matteo Damiani’s works marry his interests in international media and the digital world with classical literature and cinema, from which he culls his materials. These ambitious, visually arresting works are striking for their simultaneous incorporation of the physical aspect of painting and semi-figurative depiction of tv news and film frames. In the Brea\king News project, for example, Damiani amasses a dense grid of collaged materials, frames from breaking news that seem to delineate a new space of perception, a hybrid between the digital world, media, and abstract painting (often represented with hand made layers of rice paper).
Damiani’s artistic research involves different mediums such as video installations, photography, and film projects; his work is focused on exploring the relationship between culture and the digital world, between materiality, surface, and latent images.
Exhibitions:
- "Media Fractures" TELA Milano, Personal exhibition
- CDM, Buenos Aires: Exhibition “Prologo”
- Exhibition Mario Gusti HQ “Ce n’est q’un debut...”. Film on the show: “Dig through time”.
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA "L'anima dell’acqua - contemporary art” collective exhibition in Venice at Palazzo Ca’ D’oro.
Name of the project: “Water falling over the world”.
- MOSTRAMI FACTORY -Milan. Exhibition “Gea, it’s a woman’s world”.
- MOSTRAMI FACTORY "La memoria nutre il pianeta”, Project “Back to basics”.
- FONDAZIONE FORMA - Milano. “Trompe l’oeil” photography exhibition curated by Francesco Zanot.
- “Biennale di Venezia arte giovani 2011” - Milano Gallerie del Duomo, collective exhibition.
- Personal exhibition “IBRIDI” - Segrate (Milano), with the sponsor of “City of Segrate”.
- Personal exhibition “IBRIDI” (Hybrids). Gallery Bonjour Garibaldi - Milan.
- “CINEMA WORKS”, personal exhibition sponsored by Comune di Segrate - Milan