Svuotare il mare, 2022
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green_performance #06 [svuotare il mare], 2022 — performance, Lampedusa

green_performance #06

[svuotare il mare], 2022 — performance, Lampedusa

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green_performance #06 [svuotare il mare], 2022 — performance, Lampedusa

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[svuotare il mare], 2022 — performance, Lampedusa

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green_performance #06 [svuotare il mare], 2022 — performance, Lampedusa

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[svuotare il mare], 2022 — performance, Lampedusa

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green_performance #06 [svuotare il mare], 2022 — performance, Lampedusa

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stand-in [homlette for hamlet], 2022

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[homlette for hamlet], 2022

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stand-in [accattone], 2022

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[accattone], 2022

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Matteo Costanzo’s practice examines the unstable status of images. Through cutting, accumulation and hybridisation, painting and sculpture collide with the languages of software, artificial intelligence and mass media.

The artwork is no longer an endpoint, but a device: a way to interrupt the paralysis of looking and reactivate experience.

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Education

MA degree, Accademia di Belle Arti, Urbino

BA degree, Accademia di Belle Arti, Urbino

Solo exhibitions

CTRL+Z, curated by Paola Ballesi, Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata

Sala d’Attesa, curated by Niccolò Giacomazzi, Musei Civici di Pesaro

American Drumpf, curated by Barbara Caterbetti, PaviArt, Pavia / TOMAV, Moresco

[svuotare il mare], BeArt 2024, stand 43, TOMAV — Giusti Contemporary Art, Pavia

Sitcom, curated by Gabriele Tosi, Sondare l’Altrove, Pesaro

Nessuno è padre ad un altro, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, TOMAV, Moresco

La Maschera del Destino, text by Letizia Mari, Spaziosei, Pescara

Human Archive, curated by Catia Monacelli, Chiesa di S. Francesco, Gualdo Tadino

Selected group exhibitions

Per via del tutto eccezionale, curated by Antonello Tolve, Fondazione Menna, Roma

Storie di Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino 3, curated by Davide Mancini Zanchi, Spazio TORRSO, Pesaro

Collettivona Viadellafucina16, curated by Kaninchen-Haus, Borealis Art Space, Torino

Lezioni di Resistenza, curated by Spazio Y & Off1cina, Quadraro, Roma

I sibburchi, curated by Polka Puttana & Eresie Pellegrine, Chiesetta degli studenti, Lecce

Senso luogo Senso tempo, curated by Francesco Buonerba and OMAR, Alberobello

Terrazza due mondi, Add-art Gallery and CentroArteTrebisonda, Spoleto

Combat Prize XIV, Museo Giovanni Fattori, Livorno

Riportando tutto a casa, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, Contemporary Cluster, Museo delle Navi Romane, Nemi

Presenti!, curated by Maurizio Coccia, Ugo Piccioni and Mara Predicatori, Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi

Tra Luci ed Ombre, curated by Stefano Papetti and Aurora Alberti, Forte Malatesta, Ascoli Piceno

OMAR al trullo, curated by MI X TA, Francavilla Fontana

Tales from the inside_out: Wander the edge, curated by Co_Atto, Stazione Porta Garibaldi, Milano

OMAR da Mauro, curated by OMAR, text by Elisa Cescon Tedesco, Roma

Can we still feel something?, curated by Eleonora Villa, Officine Brandimarte, Ascoli Piceno

Abbiamo seminato erba tra le pietre, curated by Marta Orsola Sironi, Galleria Biffi, Piacenza

Existence is co-existance — MOCAfeast, curated by Antonello Tolve, Monsano

Premio Francesco Fabbri, curated by Carlo Sala, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo

RAMO 0.6, curated by Giuliana Benassi, Hotel Royal, Giulianova

Casamatta, curated by Re-public, text by Marta Orsola Sironi, Bastione Sangallo, Fano

Il cuore dell’arte per i comuni delle Marche, curated by Stefano Verri, Consorzio Loretello

Anteprima, curated by Nikla Cingolani, TOMAV, Moresco

Saremo in pochi — VIAFARINI, curated by Giulio Verago, Milano

Group Show, curated by Brice Coniglio, viadellafucina16 Condominio Museo, Torino

Manabamàte, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, BoCs Art, Cosenza

Global Education — Welcome to Venice, curated by Giuseppe Stampone & Handle With Care, Venezia

Premio G.B. Salvi, 68th edition, Palazzo della Pretura, Sassoferrato

Display 2.0, curated by Annalisa Ferraro, O’Vascio Gallery, Somma Vesuviana

Arteam 2018, curated by Matteo Galbiati, Fondazione Dino Zoli, Forlì

Premio Nazionale delle Arti XII, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

In/stabile, curated by Angelo Capasso, ABA Urbino

Marche allo stato dell’Arte, curated by Massimo Vitangeli, Museo Diocesano, Ancona

Baseopen #03 Game Over, BASE / Progetti per l’arte, Firenze

Cambiamenti — Eneganart, Palazzo Bastogi, Firenze; Appia Antica Art Project, Roma; OS1_Operative System 1_Nutrimentum, Urbino; Biennale dei Giovani Artisti Marchigiani, Civitanova Marche; A Space Odyssey, Museo Arnaldo Pomodoro, Pietrarubbia

Awards

Winner, Premio Pannaggi VIII edition; finalist, Prisma Art Prize XIII edition

Finalist, Combat Prize XIV

Finalist, Premio Francesco Fabbri per le arti contemporanee

Winner, Premio G.B. Salvi 68th edition; finalist, Arteam

Finalist, Premio Nazionale delle Arti XII

Finalist, Eneganart

Finalist, Premio Marina di Ravenna

Winner, Biennale Giovani Artisti Marchigiani

Residencies

Cammino Contemporaneo, Castelnuovo di Farfa, Rieti

RAMO 0.6, Giulianova, curated by Giuliana Benassi, Giuseppe Pietroniro and Francesco Arena

VIR Viafarini-in-residence, DOCVA, Milano; Sciame_Project online residency

BoCs Art — Residenze Artistiche, Cosenza, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

Online projects

Come fantasmi uniti in un sogno, curated by Benedetta Monti, OMAR on OnlyFans

Private Dance, curated by Francesca Rossi Minelli, OMAR on OnlyFans; Quadriennale di Roma 22, Panorama studio visit; OMAR co-founder

Guerriglia Semiologica, Trascendanza.net

Sciame_Project; The Colouring Book; #Laculturanonsiferma; Ti do la mia parola; Emergencyexit_artinquarantine; Squareproject; The Artist Stays Home; Tabula Rasa

Publications

CTRL+Z, Vydia editore, ISBN 978-88-97374-89-3; Sala d’Attesa, ISBN 979-82-66756-60-1

222 artisti emergenti su cui investire, ISBN 978-88-85-55305-7

Sibyllae — Intime Marche; Catalogo Premio Combat, ISBN 978-88-3340-379-3; Riportando tutto a casa, ISBN 9788867263905

Annuario d’arte italiana 2022, Quadriennale di Roma, ISBN 978-88-12-01099-8

Catalogo Premio Francesco Fabbri, ISBN 978-88-941857-6-8

The Colouring Book, Sole24ore Cultura, ISBN 978-88-6648-525-4

Catalogo Premio G.B. Salvi 68th edition; Catalogo Arteam 2018

Catalogo OS_1>Nutrimentum; Catalogo Premio Marina di Ravenna

Catalogo Biennale Giovani Artisti Marchigiani

Arte Contro l’Omofobia, ISBN 978-88-6352-048-4