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Matteo Negri

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  • MATTEO NEGRI | PIANO PIANO

    MATTEO NEGRI | PIANO PIANO

    curated by Alberto Fiz - Critical contribution by Lorenzo Bruni 11 Nov 2016 - 3 Feb 2017
    ABC-ARTE opens the new solo exhibition by Matteo Negri: “Piano Piano / Slowly but Surely” curated by Alberto Fiz and with a critical essay by Lorenzo Bruni
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  • UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE curated by Ivan Quaroni

    UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE curated by Ivan Quaroni

    THE ABSTRACTION AFTER THE ABSTRACTION 14 Jun - 23 Sep 2016
    Uncertainty Principle, curated by Ivan Quaroni . Paolo Bini, Isabella Nazzarri , Matteo Negri, Patrick Tabarelli , Viviana Valla and Giulio Zanet. ABC-ARTE , Genova Italy. Six artists of the Millennium generation rethink the code of abstract representation, occupying the Genoa's art gallery spaces with polysemous signs and gestures, between expanded painting, sculpture and environmental installation.
    Uncertainty principle studies the birth of a new abstract and polysemous sensitivity, expressed through a variety of mediums: painting, sculpture and installation, in discontinuity with the classic abstraction codes, geometrical, informal or analytical. The curator Ivan Quaroni identified six artists, born between 1979 and 1987, who developed a mainly aniconic language, even if there are cases where the relationship with figurative styles haven’t been completely cut off. What distinguishes this group of artists is the recognition of the basic ambiguity of visual language and, therefore, the final dismissal of the dichotomy between abstraction and representation, a legacy from the past.
    In 1986, the American abstract painter Jonathan Lasker wrote: “I’m seeking subject matter, not abstraction.” Lasker thought Abstraction was dead with Frank Stella's Black Paintings, so he imagined painting as representing marginal topics like memory, presence, matter, transcendence and the mix between high and low art. In addition to these topics, felt as crucial nowadays, the post-abstraction by the Millennials, shaped by the exponential growing of information and digital technology, reflects on the individual’s position during image creation and fruition processes.
    The channels and timings of perception in painting (as well as in sculpture and installation), was a central matter in the avant-garde research by Zero Group and Azimut and analytical painters during the Seventies. What appears as a distinctive factor in these studies is that they all come from individual experiences.
    The title Uncertainty principle refers to the epistemological consequences of Heisemberg’s theory in scientific research. It becomes an excuse to underline the radical subjectivity of the artistic studies by the Y generation and, at the same time, it highlights how this subjectivity crosses codified limitations, to get into a syntactic and casual, ambiguous and undetermined dimension.
    Paolo Bini (Battipaglia, 1984) translates physical and mental landscapes in abstract chromatic units, based on pixels and scanner or plotter timings. The artist paints on paper strips, then mounted on boards and canvases (or walls), to create images characterized by a parallel, rhythmical and chromatic partition. With paintings, installations and paint-sculptures, Bini builds a lyrical and personal variation of pattern painting, where geometrical precision and gestural urgency of abstract expressionism coexist peacefully. The works by Isabella Nazzarri (Livorno, 1987) are inspired by phyto-morphic and anato-morphic forms. Using an organic and perpetually changing alphabet, she expresses memories, intuitions and mental images, incomprehensible in any other way. The artist gets inspiration from the classification of anatomical and herbal tables to build a world of evocative and fluctuating pictograms, obtained crossing mental structures with natural morphologies. For this occasion, Nazzarri realized a big mural painting on the gallery ceiling, a concentric and crowded genesis of alien organisms, echoing the codified forms of her great canvas paintings and watercolor papers. Matteo Negri’s (San Donato Milanese, 1982) research focuses on plastic substances in an eclectic way, in combination with stone and ceramic, metal and resin, creating pop shapes and colors for an immediate expressive efficiency. His varied production centers on the division between form and meaning, a short circuit of aesthetic content and substance. This is the case of Kamigami Box, big irregular boxes showing internal surfaces covered with mirroring steel. The surfaces reflect the Lego constructions on the sculpture’s base ad infinitum, giving the impression of a limitless urban settlement. Together with a new Kamigami, the artist shows a piece of furniture, containing many, small unexpected surprises. The mechanisms of creation and image fruition are at the center of Patrick Tabarelli’s (Verona, 1979) work.
    His works drive the observer towards a kind of perceptive uncertainty, thanks to their formal ambiguity. His paintings are made of flat, almost digital surfaces, or are crossed by dynamic and minimal oscillations, in contrast with the gestural origins of his style. Recently, his works focused on the construction of drawing machines, digital hardware and software for the production of surfaces, which look like hand-painted. So, the ambiguity between author and work emerges once again. Viviana Valla (Voghera, 1986) elaborates the language of geometrical abstraction through unconventional substances, like recovery papers, post-it, scotch and fragments of printed images. She invents an intimate dimension with the realization of a mysterious and enigmatic visual diary. Her works are partially hidden by various layers of acrylic chalk and develop a geometrical structure monochromatically imperfect, where clear areas alternate with surfaces showing how
    color dissolves into brushes and fragmentary modules. Giulio Zanet (Colleretto Castelnuovo, 1984) reports moments of everyday life, reflections and considerations over the nature of experience, without using recognizable forms or narrative approaches. His pictorial language is based on a process of formal abstraction: it is impossible to objectify thoughts ad emotions. His works show uncertain shapes, segments, repetitions. The locked motif of decoration is fused with a free and gestural, rough and imperfect disposition. These shapes find a vital expressive impulse in its fragile balance between rules and transgression. In the exhibition, there are many works breaking the picture’s usual structure, invading the gallery walls and floors, like fragments of an expanded painting located into the environmental space.
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  • Matteo Negri | Splendid Villa with Garden, Charming Views

    Matteo Negri | Splendid Villa with Garden, Charming Views

    curated by Daniele Capra, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese. 21 May - 15 Oct 2016
    Matteo Negri Splendid villa with garden, charming views Curated by Daniele Capra Six site specific pieces of sculpture for the ground floor and garden of the house in Novate Milanese....
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  • Matteo Negri | Multiplicity

    Matteo Negri | Multiplicity

    Matteo Negri, curated by Ivan Quaroni 2 - 29 Dec 2015
    ABC-ARTE Contemporary art gallery, in partnership with MARYLING, continues the series of exhibitions by young and emerging contemporary artists in the multi-purpose space, Piazza Gae Aulenti 1 inaugurated in July. The fourth planned exhibition, proposed by ABC-ARTE and curated by Ivan Quaroni, will open on Wednesday December 2nd: Multiplicity by the artist Matteo Negri.
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  • Un pallino in testa

    Un pallino in testa

    Massimo Kaufmann, Garbriele Picco, Roberto Pietrosanti e Matteo Negri 17 Dec 2013 - 27 Feb 2014
    Four artists, united by the repeated use of the geometry of the circle on an abstract space, in a close dialogue that has taken place among orthogonal signs, perpetual volumes and modular portions in relief, express their creativity in a free choice of colors and different formal solutions.
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  • Matteo Negri / IN LOVE

    Matteo Negri / IN LOVE

    Public art 17 Jul - 15 Oct 2013
    Public art
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  • A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again

    A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again

    A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again / Exhibition catalogue with critical reviews by Viana Conti, Milovan Farronato, arch. Carlo Berio, Gerardo Bonomo and an interview with Luca Fiore 21 Dec 2012 - 9 Jun 2013
    The title of the Matteo Negri solo show, in ABC-ARTE, quotes the corrosive reportage by David Foster Wallace about the typology of the average American man's holidays in the Caribbean.
    There is a strong playful component in the work by Matteo Negri (Milan 1982), which goes from sculpture, art installations and photography, together with an intense thinking of the human subject form childhood to the adult age. This work is completed by an eclectic selection of plastic substances, ceramics, bronze and resin.
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  • A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again

    A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again

    Public art 18 Dec 2012 - 30 Jun 2013
    In collaboration with the Municipality of Genoa, ABC-ARTE, directed by Antonio Borghese, presentsed the placement of three sculptures by Matteo Negri, in three of the main genoese crossroad.
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  • Colors on Stage

    Colors on Stage

    Shozo Shimamoto, Hermann Nitsch, Georges Mathieu, Marcello Lo Giudice, Yang Maoyuan 19 Jun - 2 Dec 2012
    Colors on stage pointed the attention on great storicized avant-guard artists, such as Shozo Shimamoto, Hermann Nitsch, George Mathieu and contemporary artists like Marcello Lo Giudice, Yang Maoyuan, celebrating the spectacular use of the pigment and colours
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