Antonello Matarazzo is an exponent of Medialismo, an Italian movement that postulate different media interaction. He has been engaged in his personal search concerning the visual arts, combining moving pictures with "still" ones, shifting from film-making to paintings and realizing video installations and video projections in galleries, museums and festivals in Italy and outside since 1990.
Since 2000, the year of his debut video, The Fable, a short film produced and broadcast by Fuori Orario (Raitre), he has taken part in many national and international festivals, such as the Venice Film Festival, Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, Rome Film Fest, Torino Film Festival, Festival international du film sur l'art de Montréal, Mar del Plata Film Festival and the Locarno International Film Festival), receiving many prizes and rave reviews.Antonello Matarazzo / Dettaglio evento Some of the most famous Italian jet set personalities, like the film critic Enrico Ghezzi and the actress Piera Degli Esposti starred in his artistic films. In 2006, a whole retrospective of his works took place within the 42° Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro.
Sources
Enciclopedias Enciclopedia dell'Arte Zanichelli, Zanichelli editore, Bologna 2004 Cinema italiano, a cura di Stefano Della Casa, editrice il Castoro, Milano 2004
Books Videofusion1 – Gabriele Perretta. Stampa Alternativa / Nuovi Equilibri edition, Roma 2007 Miserere - Andrea Cortellessa, Gabriele Perretta. Squilibri Editore, Roma 2006 Neotelevisione - Marcello Pecchioli. Edizioni Costa & Nolan, Milano 2006 I mestieri di Ergon - Gabriele Perretta. Edizioni Mimesis, Milano 2005 Media.comm(unity)/comm.medium - Gabriele Perretta. Edizioni Mimesis, Milano 2004
Catalogues Invideo 2007. Poetroniche – Elena Marcheschi. Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2007 p. I.T.t.u.r.a. (ipotesi figurative italiane) - Gianluca Marziani. Edizioni StudioSei, Milano 2006 Milano doc Festival 2007 - Bruno Di Marino, Claudio Strinati. Edizioni Doc Fest, Roma 2007 Invideo 2005. A rovescio – Sandra Lischi, Elena Marcheschi. Revolver edition, Bologna 2005 Antonello Matarazzo: Steak&Steel - Alfonso Amendola, Gabriele Perretta. International Printing Editore, Avellino 2005 BovArchè - Meridiani d'Oriente - Gabriele Perretta. Liriti Editore, Reggio Calabria 2004 XI Biennale d'Arte Sacra - Maria Luisa Caffarelli. Edizioni Staurós di S. Gabriele, Isola del Gran Sasso TE 2004 Antonello Matarazzo - Enrico Ghezzi, Marisa Vescovo. Edizioni Studio Vigato, Alessandria 2003 Laboratorio Politico di Fine Secolo - Gabriele Perretta. Edizioni Dell'Ortica, Bologna 1997 Aperto Italia '97 - Simona Barucco. Giancarlo Politi Editore, Milano 1997
Exhibitions
2008 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova, organized by Jade Walker, Creative Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (USA) Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova, organized by Laura Conchelos, B1 Lounge, South Pole / The University of Southern Maine, Portland (ME) 2007 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova, organized by Karl Lind – Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon (USA) Made in Italy - Genius Loci, edited by Bruno Roberti / Archivio Raro video, edited by Bruno Di Marino – Filmstudio, Roma Attori/Spettatori, edited by Raffaele Curi, Bruno Di Marino – Fondazione Alda Fendi, Roma Project 59, organized by Tamara Alexandrovna Galeyeva – Center of Contemporary Culture, The Urals State University, Yekaterinburg (RUS) Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova – OkNo Gallery, Chelyabinsk (RUS) La posa infinita (solo exhibition), coordinated by Milano Doc Festival – Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia 'Leonardo da Vinci', Milano Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova – The Galaxie, Doc Films / University of Chicago, Chicago (USA) Interreg III C - Noè, edited by Simona Isgrò, Valentina Valerio – Conseil de la Région PACA office, Marsiglia (FR) Miserere, edited by Canio Loguercio – PAN (Palazzo delle Arti), Napoli 2006 Miserere, edited by Canio Loguercio – Basilica di S. Maria in Ara Coeli, Roma 10 secondi (solo exhibition), coordinated by Fondazione RomaEuropa – Teatro Palladium, Roma 4° International Designexpo - Transversalità, edited by Federica Dal Falco, Antonella Greco – Ex Magazzini Generali, Roma 22nd Art Amsterdam (solo exhibition), stand StudioSei Arte Contemporanea – Amsterdam Art Fair exhibition pavilions, Amsterdam (NL) Phoenix, A transformative Multi Media Co-creation, coordinated by Bayennale 2006 – Ghost Town Galleries, Oakland - California (USA) Video On/On Video, edited by Bruno Di Marino – Arte Parma exhibition pavilions, Parma p. I.T.t.u.r.a. (ipotesi figurative italiane), edited by Gianluca Marziani – StudioSei Arte Contemporanea, Milano Arco, stand Changing Role-Move Over Gallery – Arco exhibition pavilions, Madrid (SP) 2005 Fujiyama vs. Vesuvio (videoretrospective), edited by Alfonso Amendola, Antonello Tolve – Villa Campolieto, Ercolano NA 2004 XI Biennale d'Arte Sacra, edited by Carlo Chenis, Marisa Vescovo – Museo Staurós d'Arte Sacra Contemporanea, Isola del Gran Sasso TE BovArchè - Meridiani d'Oriente (Venice Biennale circuit), edited by Gabriele Perretta – Palazzo Mesiani, Bova RC Media.comm(unity)/comm.medium, edited by Gabriele Perretta – Masedu-Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Sassari 2003 Testimoni per caso (solo exhibition), testi di Enrico Ghezzi, Marisa Vescovo – Studio Vigato, Alessandria Imago Mentis, edited by Gabriele Perretta – galleria Romberg, Latina / galleria La Giarina, Verona [...] 1997 Aperto '97, edited by Simona Barucco, organized by Flash Art – Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi PG [...] 1991 Matarazzo-Miro-Sabatello, edited by Giuseppe Selvaggi – Museo Trasporti, Budapest (H)
Film Festivals
2007 9. Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, Parigi (F) 17. InVideo Mostra Internazionale di Video e Cinema oltre, Spazio Oberdan, Milano 2. Rome Film Festival, Roma 60. Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno (CH) 17. Festival Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina, Milano 22. Mar del Plata Film Festival, Buenos Aires (RA) 2006 11. Roma Film Festival, (Eventi/Etrange), Roma 42. Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, (retrospective), Pesaro. Reggio Calabria Film Festival, (retrospective), Reggio Calabria 24. Festival International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA), Montréal (CDN) Festival International de Film et Vidéo de Création, Beirut (RL) 2005 15. InVideo Mostra Internazionale di Video e Cinema oltre, Spazio Oberdan, Milano 27. Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, Montpellier (F) 62. Venice International Film Festival, Venezia 8. Expresión en Corto, Guanajuato (MEX) 41. Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro Festival d'Arte di Palazzo Venezia, (Nuovi linguaggi), Roma • 1° Price 2004 22. Torino Film Festival, (Spazio Italia), Torino 26. Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, Montpellier (F) 7. 'O Curt, Institut Française Le Grenoble, Napoli International Film Festival of Fine Art, Szolnok (H) 7. Expresión en Corto, Guanajuato (MEX) 12. Arcipelago, (E-Movie), Roma • Special Mention 2003 21. Torino Film Festival, (Spazio Italia), Torino 11. Arcipelago, (Corto.web), Roma • 1° Price 21. Bellaria Film Festival, (Anteprima), Bellaria RN 2002 20. Torino Film Festival, (Spazio Italia), Torino 2001 19. Bellaria Film Festival, (Anteprima), Bellaria RN 2000 18. Bellaria Film Festival, (Anteprima), Bellaria RN
Video-filmography
4B movie ( © 2007 col. DVcam 5' ) La posa infinita ( © 2007 b/w DVcam 3 video 1' loop cad) Luna Zero ( © 2007 col. DVcam 10' ) Mummy ( © 2007 col. DVcam 3' loop ) tribal TRIBAL ( © 2007 col. DVcam 3' ) Piera e gli assassini ( © 2007 col. DVcam 6' ) 9 06 83 ( © 2006 col. DVcam 4' ) Interferenze ( © 2006 col. DVcam 30' ) En plain air ( © 2005 col. DVcam 10' ) Miserere (cantus) ( © 2005 col. DVcam 8' ) Lovers ( © 2004 col. DVcam 24' ) Apice ( © 2004 col. DVcam 6' ) A Sua immagine ( © 2004 col. DVcam 3' ) Miserere ( © 2004 col. DVcam 19' ) Warh ( © 2003 col. DV 8') VIDEO La Camera Chiara ( © 2003 b/w-col. DV 8' ) Astrolìte ( © 2002 b/w-col. miniDV 40' ) Mi chiamo Sabino ( © 2001 b/w-col. miniDV 11' ) Le cose vere ( © 2001 b/w-col. miniDV 28' ) Dance purge ( © 2000 b/w-col. DV 9' ) The Fable ( © 2000 b/w-col. DV 9' )
References
External links official website extended biography up-to-date bibliography Film Italia Filmographies Rai Tre Bibliobit Tesionline contribution1: Teknemedia contribution2: Undonet contribution3: Nybramedia