Matteo Basilé

Viaggio al Centro della Terra #1
2017

Matteo Basilé
“Viaggio al Centro della Terra #1”, 2017
Stampa digitale su carta Hahnemuhle baryta
130 x 260 cm
Viaggio al Centro della Terra #2
2017

Matteo Basilé
“Viaggio al Centro della Terra #2”, 2017,
dittico, stampa digitale su carta Hahnemuhle baryta
130 x 260 cm, 130 x 85 cm
Viaggio al Centro della Terra #3
2017

Matteo Basilé
“Viaggio al Centro della Terra #3”, 2017
Dittico stampa digitale su carta Hahnemuhle baryta
130 x 260 cm, 130 x 85 cm
Centro della Terra
2017

Matteo Basilé
“Centro della Terra”, 2017
Stampa digitale su carta Hahnemuhle baryta
120 x 80 cm
Madre
2017

Matteo Basilé
“Madre”, 2017
Stampa digitale su carta Hahnemuhle baryta
210 x 150 cm
Egun
2017

Matteo Basilé
“Egun”, 2017
Dittico, stampa digitale su carta Hahnemuhle baryta
105 x 70 cm cad.
Terrae Motus
2017

Matteo Basilé
“Terrae motus”, 2017
Dittico, stampa digitale su carta Hahnemuhle baryta
225 x 150 cm cad.
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #01
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #05
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #12
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #20
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #21
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #24
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #27
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #28
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #37
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #38
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #44
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #45
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #48
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY PEOPLE #53
2010

Lambda print on silver paper
mounted on aluminium and framed

167 x 125 cm
ed. 3 + 1 AP
THISHUMANITY SERIES-CIRCLE OF SINNERS #01
2010

C-print on paper mounted
on double plexiglass

180 x 288 cm
ed. 3 + 2AP


120 x 192 cm
ed. 3 + 2AP
THISHUMANITY SERIES-CIRCLE OF SINNERS #02
2010

C-print on paper mounted
on double plexiglass

180 x 288 cm
ed. 3 + 2AP


120 x 192 cm
ed. 3 + 2AP
THISHUMANITY SERIES-CIRCLE OF SINNERS #03
2010

C-print on paper mounted
on double plexiglass

180 x 288 cm
ed. 3 + 2AP


120 x 192 cm
ed. 3 + 2AP

Matteo Basilé

 Matteo Basilé (1974) è nato e vive a Roma. E’ considerato uno dei principali esponenti dell’arte digitale europea. Da circa dieci anni fonde la cultura digitale con l’iconografia classica, re-inventando l’idea del ritratto. L’artista utilizza la fotografia digitale per sviluppare e ampliare il suo personale codice di pittura contemporanea, utilizzando la protesi linguistica del computer, che gli permette di ampliare ogni visione e dare profondità alla splendente superficie dell’immagine. Il mondo di Basilé è un universo iconografico risolto tra manierismo tecnologico e surrealismo pittorico. Nel suo caso i due movimenti storici dell’arte segnalano l’uso inedito di una citazione che tende alla sintesi e all’affermazione dell’arte come metalinguaggio. I suoi personaggi, catturati dallo scatto digitale, divengono icone senza tempo, dove segni tracciati sulla pelle raccontano geografie di memorie intime. Il volto inteso come viaggio, la memoria come approdo in quello che Basilé definisce “archivio dell’anima”. La sua collezione di volti e corpi racconta, nel suo divenire, la storia di un’umanità a lui cara. Donne, bambini, uomini e vecchi vengono catapultati nell’immaginario senza tempo dell’artista con il compito di tramandare un verbo tridimensionale che unisce la pittura con il cinema, la scrittura con la materia, la fotografia con il suono e lo spazio scenico con il pubblico. L’artista campiona, manipola e sintetizza il DNA dei suoi personaggi per trasformarli in martiri e santi di un mondo parallelo al nostro. Bellezze inquietanti e bruttezze meravigliose si fondono nell’era del digitale. Realtà e finzione viaggiano parallele fino a sfiorarsi nella creazione di un nuovo immaginario collettivo.

 

 Matteo Basilé (1974) was born and lives in Rome. He is considered one of the foremost protagonists of European digital art. For the past decade he has been blending digital culture with classical iconography, re-inventing the portrait. The artist uses digital photography in order to develop and expand his personal code for contemporary painting, utilizing the computer as linguistic prosthesis in order to expand each vision and lend depth to the splendid surfaces of his artworks. Basilé’s world is an iconographic universe extending between technological mannerism and artistic surrealism. In his case, these two historic art movements mark a novel use of citation that tends towards synthesis and the affirmation of art as a meta-language. Captured within the digital frame, his subjects become timeless icons. Marks traced upon their skins recount the geography of intimate memories. It is the face understood as voyage, memory as the warehouse for that which Basilé defines as the “archive of the soul.” His collection of faces and bodies tells the tale of a humanity dear to the artist. Women, children, men and the elderly are catapulted into the artist’s timeless imagination with the goal of passing on a three-dimensional verb capable of uniting painting with cinema, writing with material, photography with sound, and scenic space with an audience. Basilé tests, manipulates and synthesizes his subjects’ DNA, transforming them into martyrs and saints within a world parallel to our own. Startling beauty and marvelous ugliness are blended together within the digital era. Reality and fiction travel side-by-side, ultimately blossoming into a new collective imagination.