MATTEO BASILÉ (Rome, 1974).
"Trans- Avanguardía Series", 2004-2005.
Mixed media print on aluminium.
Work referenced on the artist's website.
Signed on the back.
Sizes: 150 x 100 cm; 154,5 x 104,5 cm (frame).
Matteo Basilé began his career in the early 1990s, establishing himself as one of the first artists in Europe to fuse art and technology. Reconciling opposing ideas such as beauty and the grotesque, the real and the surreal, natural and artificial. Exploring the nature of humanity, the artist developed his own narrative, which crystallised in artistic serias such as transavanguarde (2006), los santos vienen (2007), este orientado (2009), thishumanity (2010), aterrizaje (2012), invisible (2014), pietra santa (2016), viaje al centro de la tierra (2017), stardust (2018), memento (2019), and mnemosyne (2021). Basilé's research can be seen as an interface between East and West (in fact, he lived and worked for almost 8 years in Southeast Asia), a dialectic that works in collision between tradition and modernity, between the professional and sacrifice. Only based on multicultural and timeless (timeless and multicultural) signs or values, because it instead includes visually a more global language where the connubial between dream, fantasy and real, is no longer the predominant real character. His anti-eroes stand out as meticulous, realistic portraits, recalling classical history yet always incorporating the spirit of the present time. Basilé's poetics is an iconographic universe, the result of a combination of technological mannerism and surrealism.
Matteo Basilé's (Rome 1974) solo exhibitions include: Matteo Basilé-Utopia, Vittoria Colonna Museum of Modern Art, Pescara, 2006; No Man's Land, Guidi & Schoen, Genoa, 2006; Alchemical Primordiality, Galleria Pack, Milan, 2005; Lord of the Flies, Galerie Beukers, Rotterdam, 2004. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including On the edge of vision - New idioms in contemporary Indian and Italian art, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata / National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi / National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai; Arterritory. Art, Territory, Memory, Centrale Montemartini, Rome, 2006; Nature and Metamorphosis, Urban Planning Exhibition Centre, Shanghai / Creative Art Centre, Beijing, 2006; Sound & Vision, City Museum / Palazzo della Penna, Perugia; Evil. Exercises in Cruel Painting, Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Turin, 2005; Italian Six, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, 2003. Basilé was the winner of the New York Price, Columbia University, 2002/2003.