Tony Matelli |
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 Monkey, 1999 |
Tony Matelli was born in Chicago, IL in 1971 and came to New York in 1995. One-person exhibitions have been organized at Basilico Fine Arts, NY (1999) and at Andrehn-Schiptjenko in Stockholm (1999). His work has appeared in group exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2000), MoCA San Diego (2000) and he has worked with the Public Art Fund, NY (1999). You may contact the artist at |
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| "Self-realization is the current societal dilemma, actually it always has been, we’ve just been distracted. With our current state of relative stability we find ourselves with out external distractions. Many of us are starting to look inward, and we are coming up empty. I make work that speaks of the need and the frustration of trying to locate oneself within an already set world. My work frequently depicts things finding wayward means of survival. This is the truest way I know to depict the current psychological state among myself, my friends and acquaintances; the people I make work about, and the people I make work for."
Selected Bibliography Avgikos, Jan. "The Shape of Art at the End of the Century", Sculpture, April, 1998. Fischman, Lisa. Art That Gets Away, Tony Matelli's Abandon, University of Buffalo Research Center in Art and Culture, 2000. Hunt, David. Art/Text, August-October, 1999. Jones, Ronald. "The best of 1998", Artforum, December, 1998. Vendrame, Simona, "Manchini" Tema Celeste, December, 1999.
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