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First, observe.
Then listen to the sounds of the places and the voices, stories and tales of the people.
Finally, travel, explore the far north of the frost and volcanic soils of Iceland, cross Italy from Val d’Aosta to Sicily and face the nature of the vast deserts of Africa and the Americas.
These are the starting points of the work of Matteo Mezzadri: born from painting, he is oriented with increasing conviction to photography and video, means that allow a direct outlet, a collection of large amounts of materials to build projects that are consistent and prepared carefully to the smallest details.
From each set, from every production, leaked a meticulous – almost scientific – process of reflection and construction of a single image as much as the general idea, with a continuous reference to those who Matteo Mezzadri considers his mentors: the great artists of the Arte Povera, portraitists of the twentieth century, those who with a single shot captured the entire life of the subject photographed.
Over the years, are therefore born Rifiuto Assoluto (Absolute Refusal), high-impact surrealist photographs documenting the reality of the waste of “civilization” abandoned in the wilderness. A Step Behind, a reflection on the need to portray everything is essential in the process of appropriation of the places and people that seems to have a bearing on the bulimia, the most recent Città Minime – presented the prestigious MIA Art Fair 2013 in Milan – reconstructions that start from the basic element of the urban environment, the brick, to offer metaphysical suggestions of fascinating and disturbing places, where man disappears, leaving empty skeletons, but not devoid of life and energy. And then the installation: All Things Organics with intense portraits of the protagonists of the work on earth, and the earth itself collected in bags from seven different places within which you retain the original seeds to let sprout in a long spontaneous process.
In order of time the latest are the video: and just the last one (Neighbors Machine) is still a close look at the city that leaves the aesthetic pleasure of ordered shots and at the same time a sense of unease and alienation in the motion sequences of details of skyscrapers, where symmetries in humans overlook almost by accident, looking a bit lost and disinterested.
In his “visual pathways” Matteo Mezzadri creates a new reality, imagine another place that disrupts the usual points of view and translates it into images, videos, works that almost refer to sci-fi worlds, and of course to a elsewhere sometimes participated, sometimes detached and highly critical.
