Matteo Confalonieri

MATTEO CONFALONIERI

It was titled memento effingere (2003),
A series of portraits of Matteo Confalonieri, that fixed with white acrylic on raw canvas the indelible memory of faces that have unambiguosly marked art history: from Bacon to Picasso, from Warhol to Duchamp. A warning to not forget the Physiognomical feature of those masters, represented with a light and dark, dense and plastic sign, as if they werw clay casts of famous roman ancestors, ivory ghosts coming to the surface of the canvas.
Now the gender of the portrait aims to the representation of familiar figures with whom the artist lives in domestic intimacy, childlike figures whose inner fantacies are upset to the external space of scene , in the background decorated with arabesques that surrounds the face, in the decorative plait of shapes. Those particulars of gold leaves give birth to a sense of estrangement and sacred suspension, metaphor of the search of mysterious and metaphysical richness. Not only the time past, therefore, but also the present reserves us formulas, symbols and meanings which can inspire the creative way of the artist.


PASSAGE WRITTEN IN THE OCCASION OF THE EXHIBITION: "15 VOLTE 1 VOLTO"