Tony Matelli
Fuck It Free Yourself, 2006
Project Description: Guided by voices
Guided By Voices: Illuminated Still Lives is a group exhibition of small discrete light emitting artworks. In Guided By Voices light doubles as a material presence and as a trigger for meaning, suggesting purity, knowledge, and the shifting play between light and darkness. The exhibition features works by Tony Matelli (New York), Wyn Geleynse (London), Laura Kikauka(Berlin/Meaford) and Ooma Haru Mooma (London). Guided By Voices is curated by Jason Schiedel and Paul Walde.
Forest City Gallery: September 11 to October 16, 2009
Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00pm to 5:00pm.
Opening Reception
September 11, 2009, 7pm to 10pm
Contact:
Jason Schiedel, Director
Forest City Gallery
258 Richmond Street,
London, Ontario,
N6B 2H7
(519)434-5875
forestcitygallery@gmail.com
http://home.golden.net/~fcg/
Artist Biography
Known for his hyper realistic sculptures, Matelli often depicts characters, or things that are barely getting by; things nearly dead, hopelessly lost or otherwise, totally unwanted. His interest has always been in the underdog.
Serving as metaphors for our own social malaise and general struggle for survival, Matelli’s sculptures mimic inner states of desolation, panic, ambivalence and despair. These states are often associated with trying to locate ones self within our social world. Formerly his works have addressed an inescapable sense of doom. In this particular work; however, Matelli has introduced a glimmer of hope.
Tony Matelli has exhibited extensively in the US and in Europe. His work was most recently seen in “I am as you will be,” the Skeleton in Art, Cheim & Reid Gallery, and “Baroque Biology” at the CAC Cincinnati, and currently in “Undone,” at the Whitney Museum, Altria. Tony Matelli lives and works in NYC.
Represented by Leo Koenig Inc.
