Matteo Giuntini navigates the realm of painting, but does so in a disruptive and visceral manner.
Matteo Giuntini: Apri Vuoto
May 16 - 26 2024
Exhibition
Matteo Giuntini was born in Livorno, Tuscany, in 1977. His professional career began in 2005 in Florence, from where he has been exhibiting in numerous group and solo exhibitions in galleries and public spaces both in Italy and abroad. Over the years he collaborates with publishing houses, advertising agencies, record companies, companies and fashion houses. Between 2016 and 2019 he participates in foreign and national residencies, most recently the one in 2019 at the Macro Museum in Rome as part of the “Study on Bosch” project. His works become part of many private and public collections. Public exhibitions include GNAM (National Gallery of Modern Art) in Rome, Museo Civico di Crema, Macro Museo in Rome.
Guest of the ninth edition of the Graphic Days® festival, Matteo Giuntini created a site-specific work by painting the walls of an entire room within the exhibition itinerary.
His pantheistic art celebrates nature and its irrational power. Part of this nature is man: not the center of a world at his service, but an acting and thinking subject in the chaotic vortex of natural things. The difficulty of existing in the world, common to every human being, explodes on Giuntini’s canvas through grotesque faces and primordial markings reminiscent of cave paintings.
Vegetal elements that seem to come from medieval herbariums break into the representation: they are not comforting or decorative images, but fragments of nature that burn like our soul, while animalistic profiles emerge from the background.
It’s an art that is in its own way mystical, made of a contemporary animism that settles upon every aspect of reality to devour it, assimilate it, and ultimately return it to the canvas in the form of painting.
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