Biography
Born on the 23rd December 1979 in Bologna
He graduated with honours from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 2003.
Since 1997 he starts proposing his works in public exhibitions.
Since 1998 he teaches drawing and painting at local schools in Emilia Romagna.
To the present day he has exhibited in a multitude of collective and solo exhibitions, events and art fairs in cities such as:
Bologna, Piacenza, Milan, Budapest, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Shangai, London …
His works belong to public and private collections in:
Italy, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Holland, Hungary, United States and Australia.
His favourite means of expression is oil painting performed on any media.
The production of Matteo is characterized by the ‘”meeting/confrontation” of realistic paintings with “hyperuranion” fascinations.
He alternates classical solidity with pictorial/gestural liquefaction.
Always interested in figuration, Matteo analyzes the individual with a substantial and inquisitive painting, at times intimate, without compromising surreal-metaphysical situations and suggestions that are more or less explicit.
Recently, he accompanies his pictorial production to the realization of illustrations and comics of a taste that is ironic and detective-noir.
During spring 2015 the first adventure of the detective J.W.Wiland, character created by him in 2012, is sent to press.
The second volume of the series, entitled: “BAD” is from February 2016.
He lives and works.
