Matteo Basilé (1974) lives and works in Rome. He began his career in the mid-nineties, becoming one of the first artists in Europe to combine art with technology. Basilé’s work is unique in its ability to reconcile apparently incompatible concepts such as the beautiful and the grotesque, the real and the surreal, the natural and the artificial, contaminating technology with Italy’s artistic tradition to construct surreal, dreamlike images. His work takes the form of an ongoing dialogue between east and west, between tradition and modernity, between the sacred and the profane, creating a new iconographic universe halfway between high-tech mannerism and a new surrealism in which reality and fiction overlap. Echoes of Caravaggio, the sumptuous scenes of the Roman Baroque, Flemish art and Velázquez’s deformed figures animate the artist’s photographs and videos, creations combining sculpture, architecture, painting and film. Exploring the nature of the human being, the artist develops a narrative that may be subdivided into successive chapters:
Quel che resta della Transavanguardia (2006) The Saints are Coming (2007), Thisoriented (2009), Thishumanity (2010), Landing (2012), Unseen (2014), Pietra Santa (2016), Viaggio al Centro della Terra (2017) Stardust (2018), Memento (2019), a series of independent stages in which the artist addresses his perception of existence. Matteo Basilé’s works are magically suspended between the time of art and the time of history, bringing back the enigmas that great painting has managed to convey over time and generations, and building upon it a new interpretation of Renaissance portraiture, now capable of insinuating a myriad of other meanings below the surface of the image: its power is no longer that of teaching or of capturing the spirit of the subject, but the power of fascination.
2023
Hybrida, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Milan, Turin, Verona, Pietrasanta, Italy
2022
Representation Of Faust, Carte Blanche Art Gallery, China
Hybrida, Visionarea Art Space, Rome, Italy
2021
Mnemosyne, Galleria Gianpaolo Abbondio, Todi, Italy
2019
Memento, nmcontemporary, Munich
Mirror, Hongkun Museum of Fine Art, Pechino, China
Mater, Museo di Palazzo Bellomo, Siracusa, Italy
Falling out of time, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2017
Starting from this humanity, Palazzo Acquaviva, Atri, Italy
Viaggio al centro della terra, Galleria PACK, Milan, Italy
2016
Pietra santa, macro museo, Rome, Italy
Lumen et umbra, Galleria Zeta Effe, Florence, Italy
2014
Pilgrimage – data, Orto dell’Abbondanza, Urbino, Italy
Unseen, Museo D’Arte Moderna Vittoria Colonna, Pescara, Italy
Unseen, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy
2013
Matteo Basilé solo exhibition 2007/2013, 53 ART MUSEUM, Guangzhou, China
Landing, Espace Soardi, Nizza, France
2012
Thishumanity, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Landing, Galleria GUIDI & SCHOEN, Genoa, Italy
2011
The Far Near – thishumanity, Hubey Provincial Academy of Art Museum, Wuhan City, China
Seisenzanome, Galleria Lorenzo Ronchini, Terni, Italy
2010
Thishumanity, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy
The Saints Are Coming – Last Act, Galleria EMME OTTO, Rome, Italy
2009
Thisoriented 2nd stage, BIASA ArtSpace, Bali, Indonesia
Thisoriented installation, Galleria Guidi e Schoen, Genoa, Italy
2008
The Saints Are Coming, Villa Bottini, Lucca, Italy
Diary, Casa degli artisti ‘Giacomo Vittone’ Tenno, Trento, Italy
2007
Apparitions, MART, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento e Rovereto, Italy
Quel che resta della Transavanguardia, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy
2006
Il Nuovo Mondo, Ronchini Arte Contemporanea, Terni, Italy
Trans-Avanguardia, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome
No Man’s Land, Galleria Guidi&Schoen, Genoa, Italy
Utopia, Museo d’Arte Moderna V. Colonna, Pescara, Italy
2005
Prototypedomestika, Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Rome, Italy
Primordial Alchemy, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy
TM: Tribes of Memory, GNAM, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
I Don’t Believe It, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2004
Empirismo Eretico, Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
Narciso, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome The Lord of the Flies, Galerie Beukers, Rotterdam, Holland
Galerie Reflex, Amsterdam, Holland
2003
Conserving, Guidi&Schoen, Genoa, Italy
2002
Spiritualized, Franco Riccardo Arti Visive, Naples, Italy
Written, Edicola Notte, Rome, Italy
New York Prize, Columbia University, New York, USA
2001
In Liquido Veritas, Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
Pray Station, Studio Ercolani, Bologna, Italy
Italian Digital Frame, GNAM Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Basilé / Cascella, D’Ac Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Ciampino, Italy
2000
Liquid Love, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
1999
F.M., Studio Ercolani, Bologna, Italy
Who is Who?, MAN Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
1998
Ritraggo ma non Ritratto, Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno, Italy
Fusion, Il Ponte Projects, Rome, Italy
1997
Clonato, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Il Mio Nome è Nessuno, Il Mio Numero è Zero, Installation for Fendi, Rome, Italy
1996
Martiri e Santi, L’Attico, Rome, Italy
1994
Corto Circuito, Caffé Latino, Rome, Italy
2021
Terra Sacra, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
2020
Alèm de 2020. Arte italiana en pandemia, MAC Contemporary Art Museum, San Paolo, Brazil
2019
XIII Matanzas Biennial of Havana, Matanzas, Cuba
2017
Group show, NM Contemporary, Montecarlo, Munich
Purifications, Aereoplastic Contemporary, Bruxelles, Belgium
Other Places, Intragallery, Naples, Italy
2016
Super, Bibo’s Place, Todi, Italy
Intro, Il Ponte Contemporanea Gallery, Rome, Italy
2015
MappeMondi, Galleria Eventinove, Turin, Italy
Circolare, Autostazione, Bologna, Italy
Seven Doors, Palazzo della Regia Dogana, Rome, Italy
2014
Opere su carta del’900. Con un omaggio a Giacinto Cerone, Bibos’s Place, Todi, Italy
Capri l’Isola dell’Arte, Certosa di San Giacomo, Capri, Italy
LVIII Premio Basilio Cascella 2014: Concordia, Delizia Estense del Verginese, Ferrara, Italy
La Metamorfosi e il Simbolo Animale TRACK 1, Spazio Nea, Naples, Italy
La Metamorfosi e il Simbolo Animale, Hybrida Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2013
Crossover. Dialogo tra la Scuola Cinese di Hubei ae Italian Art Scene, Tesa 113, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy
Open // The Generation of Future, Accademia di Belle Arti di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
High Quality – Selection, Galleria ARTRIBU, Rome, Italy
2012
About Caravaggio, Scuderie Aldobrandini, Rome, Italy
Mapping Identities, Galleria Guidi & Schoen, Genoa, Italy
PPP. Una Polemica Inversa. Omaggio a Pasolini, Palazzo Incontro, Rome, Italy
inCollectionthree_Humanity, Pinacoteca Comunale, Oristano, Italy
A meno di non ricorrere a una fotografia, Lattuada Studio, Milan, Italy
Come tumi vuoi, Galleria AMY D, Milan, Italy
Corpo elettronico, Complesso Monumentale del San Giovanni, Catanzaro, Italy
Ten 2002/2012, Galleria Guidi & Schoen, Genoa, Italy
2011
Mirabilis, Spazio88, Rome, Italy
Direzione Alterità, Teatro India, Rome, Italy
La costante comologica, Complesso Monumentale del San Giovanni, Catanzaro, Italy
ACTHUNG! ACHTUNG!, Spazio Ex Gil, Rome, Italy
2010
I Love Music #1, Room 26, Rome, Italy
The Belly Of An Architect, Jarach Gallery, Venice, Italy
Ritratti italiani, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Aroldo Bonzagni, Cento, Italy
Miraggi, Castel Sant’Angelo, Taranto, Italy
Under Italian Eyes, Horizon One, Mahmound Khalil Museum, Cairo, Egypt
2009
Thisoriented 1st Stage, Venezia, Collaudi, 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavillion, Venice, Italy
Nigredo, Ex lavanderia, Rome, Italy
Melting Cinema, XSISTER, Rome, Italy
2008
Art Italienne Contemporaine, Marlborough Galerie, Munich
Experimenta: La nuova collezione della Farnesina, Palazzo della Farnesina, Rome, Italy
Biancaneve (e i Sette Nani), Galleria Guidi&Schoen, Genoa, Italy
15° Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Fotografando: dalla Mec Art al digitale, Biblioteca Centro Cultura, Nembro, Italy
Collection Sacrocam – Santa Croce Contemporary Museum, Magliano, Italy
Arrivi e Partenze. Italia, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
Biennale di Alessandria, video e fotografia contemporanea, Alessandria, Italy
2007
Strange(r) World, Galleria Guidi&Schoen, Genoa, Italy
On the Edge of Vision, Victoria Hall, National Gallery of Modern Art, Calcutta, India
Arterritory, Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
Italia, 1980-2007, Tendenze della ricerca contemporanea, opere delle collezioni del MART, National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam
La Nuova Figurazione italiana… To be continued, Fabbrica Borroni, Bollate, Italy
2006
Nature and Metamorphosis, Emergent Italian creativity Informs Nature, U. P. Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China; Creative Art Center, Beijing, China
Anima Digitale, Festival della Creatività, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
Sound and Vision, Museo della Città, Perugia, Italy
Il ribelle imminente, Teatro del Bibbiena, Mantova, Auditorium di Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
Frescobosco, Certosa di Padula, Padua, Italy
L’Eletta, documentary on Vladimir Luxuria
2005
Face to Face, Matteo Basilé vs. Fritz Kok, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Il Male nell’Arte, Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Turin, Italy
Le Ragioni delle Regioni, Tuscia Expò, Viterbo, Italy
T.E.C. Le Tecniche Esecutive dell’Arte Contemporanea, Scuderie Aldobrandini, Rome, Italy
1905-2005 Premio Fabbri, Fondazione Del Monte, Bologna, Italy
Miracolo a Milano, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy
Premio Michetti – In & OUT, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
Profumo di Donna, Galleria Tasso, Bergamo, Italy
Greetings to Arte 2005, MART, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
2004
Matteo Basilé+Giacomo Costa, Galleria Depot, Lecco, Italy
Artisti per Alcamo, Alcamo, Palermo, Italy
Face to Face, Judith Walter Gallery, Weizelsdorf, Austria
Medioevo Prossimo Venturo, Certaldo, Palazzo Pretorio, Siena, Italy
La Madonna nell’Arte Contemporanea, San Bartolomeo, Palermo, Italy
L’Occhio, l’Orecchio, il Cuore, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, Italy
2003
Italian Six, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
Melting Pop, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
Young Italian Genoma, Buia Gallery, New York, USA
Italian Factory, Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice, Italy
Roma Duemilatre, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy
Melting Pop, Castello Mansago, Varese, Italy
Premio Ermanno Casoli, Serra San Quirico, Ancona , Italy
Premio Vasto, Vasto, Italy
In Faccia al Mondo, Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
Preview Quadriennale, Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy
Specchio, Galleria Guidi&Schoen, Genoa, Italy
Futuro Italiano, Parlamento Europeo, Bruxelles, Belgium
Invitation to the future, Barbara Behan Contemporary Art, London, UK
Sguardi, Artiscope Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
Tempus Fugits, Galleria Piziarte, Teramo, Italy
XI Biennale di Arte Sacra, Santuario di San Gabriele, Teramo, Italy
Art Files, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
2002
Art Files, Frontiere dell’Arte Digitale, Temple University, Rome, Italy
L’altra metà del cielo, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Ricomincio da 8, Guidi&Schoen, Genoa, Italy
Quadro Digitale Contemporaneo, Cartiere Vannucci, Milan, Italy
DNArt, Gen.Etica e Mutazione, Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy
Il Lato Oscuro della Letteratura, Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantoa, Italy
Technogallery, SMAU, Cartiere Vannucci, Milan, Italy
Quadro Digitale Contemporaneo, Cartiere Vannucci, Milan, Italy
2001
Chiamami Peroni… Sarò la tua Arte, Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantoa, Italy
Hellzapoppin, Galleria Mascherino, Rome, Italy
Dalla Mini al Mini, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
L’Altra Metà del Cielo, GAM, Bologna, Italy
Arte Elettronica, Metamorfosi e Metafore, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy
La Nuova Collezione di Palazzo Forti, Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy
Il Mito dell’Aspirina, BAYER, Milan, Italy
Quadro Digitale Contemporaneo, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2000
Cantico 2000, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
Trapassato Futuro, Cartiere Vannucci, Milan, Italy
WelcHome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
FORMA/E; Variations on One Image, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Berlino, Germany
Premio Cairo Communication, La Posteria, Milan Sui Generis, PAC, Milan, Italy
Artisti emergenti della Roma del 2000, Gabriela Mistral Gallery, Santiago, Chile
Generazionale: Indagine sulle nuove generazioni, Basilica Palladiana, Lamec e sala degli Zavatteri, Vicenza, Italy
Artisti di Marca, Stamperia Dell’Arancio, Grottammare, Italy
NO BORDER, Museo d’Arte di Ravenna, S.Maria delle Croci, Ravenna, Italy
Artbit, Acquario di Roma, Rome, Italy
Notte Fonda, Le Palme, Rome, Italy
Sacro e Profano, Celano, L’Aquila, Italy
1999
High Resolution, Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
La Festa dell’Arte, Acquario di Roma, Rome, Italy
Autori/Tratti/Italiani, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Spazio Aperto, GAM Galleria d’arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Eventi Multimediali, GNAM Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Premio Marche 1999, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
XX Biennale di Alessandria, Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Alexandria, Egypt
Notte, Galleria Sala Uno, Rome, Italy
1998
Pre-millennium Tension, Fabbrica Eos, Milan, Italy
Qualche amico vittima di confusione, Studio Ercolani, Bologna, Italy
Mitovelocità, Museo d’arte Moderna di San Marino, San Marino, Italy
160 Sintetica, Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy
La Festa dell’Arte, Ex-Mattatoio, Rome, Italy
Cronache Vere, Spazio Consolo, Milan, Italy
Cascella: cinque generazioni di artisti, Museo d’arte dello Splendore di Giulianova, Teramo, Italy
Nuovo Ritratto Italiano, Spazio Consolo, Milan, Italy
“Ars Medica” Fuori Uso, Ex Clinica Baiocchi, Pescara, Italy
1997
In che senso italiano?, Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, Rome, Italy
Toip Price – Telecom, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
Aperto 1997, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
The Diesel Show, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Officina Italia, GAM, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Dal Reale al Virtuale, Temple Gallery, Rome, Italy
1996
Prendere o Lasciare, Paola Verrengia, Salerno, Italy
Cartemonete, Galleria Giulia, Rome, Italy
D.E.V.O., Galleria Giulia, Rome, Italy
Tracce, Istituto Cervantes, Milan, Italy
Visioni Interattive, Bibli, Rome, Italy
Premio Marche 1995 / 1996, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
White Christmas, Galleria Fermenti Lattici, Torrimpietra, Italy
Artolina, Galleria Spazio Oltre, Rome, Italy
Art for All, Museo Barracco, Rome, Italy
Animum Reflectens, Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno, Italy
Immagini Italiane, Medienmeile am Halfen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Gir@mondo (Globetrotter), Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
XII° Quadriennale di Roma. Ultime Generazioni, Termini, Ala Mazzoniana, Rome, Italy
Femminile Maschile & Co, Libreria USCITA, Il Manifesto, Rome, Italy
1:1 – 5 Critici: 5 Artisti, Galleria Fermenti Lattici, Torrimpietra, Italy
1995
S.P.Q.R. 1995, Galerie Alessandro Vivas, Paris, France
Can you feel it?, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, London, UK
Hierogliphica, Galleria Stuarr, Rome, Italy
Monitors, Biblioteca A. Rispoli, Rome, Italy
See You, Ass. culturale Autori-Messa, Rome, Italy
Gelo e Disgelo, Farnese Palace, Ortona, Italy
Corpi Mobili, Galleria Graziano Vigato, Alessandria, Italy
1994
What’s your petrol?, Autori-Messa, Rome, Italy
Artenergy, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Collectivity, Galleria Marco Rossi Lecce, Rome, Italy
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