Ronchini Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of the Roman artist Matteo Basilè.
Second time protagonist at Ronchini’s Gallery, the artist exhibits six works of art that belong to the series “thisoriented”, an art project displayed at the 53 Edition of the Venice Biennale in 2009.
Through Basilè’s photographic works, characters on the edge of reality blend among technology, global communication and sublimity; perfect symbiosis of a universal creed that has man as its epicenter.
The human is the fundamental element, always and everywhere, shrouded in real, surreal, magic and disturbing symbols that interweave into the perfect balance of the artist’s iconographic universe. The series “thisoriented” has been made and realized in South East Asia, where “thisoriented”, playing upon words, indicates the Orient disoriented by the globalization of the contemporary. A real surreal which even in its creation bears the reliable signs of a computer, the artist’s prosthesis, that joins the beauty of his formal choices until reaching a visual ecstasy.
The works are magnified visions between a technological mannerism and a pictorial surrealism that temptingly accompany towards something disorienting, in that not belonging to an ordinary symbolic representation, except for the image of the human itself.
Matteo Basilè was born in Rome in 1974. He lives and works between Bali (Indonesia) and Rome.
Among the artist’s most significant exhibitions:
53 Venice Biennale, Venice (2009); XV Quadrennial, The Exhibition Hall, Rome (2008); Italy 1980/2007, Vietnam National Fine Art Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam (2007); Apparitions, Mart, Rovereto (Solo show, 2007); On the edge of vision - New idioms in Indian & Italian contemporary art, Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta/National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi/National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2007); Matteo Basilé-Utopia, Museum of Modern Art Vittoria Colonna, Pescara, (Solo show, 2006); Woodland Padula Abbey curated by A. Bonito Oliva (2006); Arterritory, Centrale Montemartini, Rome, (2006); Natura e Metamorfosi, Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai/ Creative Art Center, Beijing, (2006); TM: Tribù della memoria. Parte 3 GNAM – The National Modern Art Museum – Rome (Solo show 2005); Quadro Digitale Italiano, The National Contemporary Art Museum, Rome (2001); MAN – The Art Museum of Nuoro (Solo Show 1999).
Orari della galleria Ronchini Arte Contemporanea:
dal lunedì al sabato 9-13 e 16-20. Domenica mattina su appuntamento
Ronchini Arte Contemporanea – P.zza Duomo 3 – 05100 TERNI – Tel 0744.58816
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