BIOGRAPHY

Born 1957 in Torre del Greco (Naples) Lives and works in Milan

WORKS

Gabriele Di Matteo - Take Care, Miltos!

Take Care, Miltos! – Oil on canvas, 180 x 150 cm,  2003

Gabriele Di Matteo - Take Care, Miltos!

Take Care, Miltos! – Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm,  2003

Gabriele Di Matteo Cher Tina je t’adore, je t’adore, je t’ adore – Francio Picabia

Tina Pica-bia, Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, 2005

Gabriele Di Matteo Cher Tina je t’adore, je t’adore, je t’ adore – Francio Picabia

Francis Picabia, Oil on Canvas 205 x 201 cm, 2005

Gabriele Di Matteo - Land Art dal Terrazzo

Tav. L – Teodore Duclère, Oil on canvas, 76 x 119 cm,  2013

Gabriele Di Matteo - Land Art dal Terrazzo

Land Art dal Terrazzo

EXHIBITION

Gabriele Di Matteo - Land Art Dal Terrazzo

Gabriele Di Matteo
Land Art dal Terrazzo

Venerdì 19 Aprile 2013

Gabriele Di Matteo - Cher Tina je t’adore, je t’adore, je t’ adore – Francis Picabia

Gabriele Di Matteo
Cher Tina je t’adore, je t’adore, je t’ adore – Francis Picabia

Dal 15 novembre 2007 al 15 dicembre 2007

Gabriele Di Matteo - Take Care, Miltos!

Gabriele Di Matteo
Take Care, Miltos!

Dal 11 aprile 2003 al 1 maggio 2003

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 – Performance “Il libro perduto” with E Il Topo, Museo Madre, Napoli

2015 – Keitelman Gallery, Brussels

– Performance, with Martín Giménez, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato , Debora Hirsch,

Francesco Fossati, Pietro Montrone and E Il  Topo . Spazio Borgogno, Milan

2014 – Keitelman Gallery, Brussels

–  Museo Pecci, Spazio Borgogno, Milan

2013 – Musée d’Art Contemporain MAMCO, Geneve

– Galleria Annarumma, Naples

2012 – Performance with Martín Giménez, Art Club 2000 E Il Topo at White Box, New York

– Performance whit Martín Giménez, Steve Piccolo E Il Topo at Supportico Lopez, Berlin

– Performance with Martín Giménez, Y Liver, Steve Piccolo E Il Topo, Printed Matter,

New York

2011 – Federco Luger, Milan

2009 – Pepe Cobo & Cia, Madrid

– Keitelman Gallery, Brussels

– Art Unlimited Basel

– Frac Bretagne et Centre Hospitalier de Cornoualle, Quimper (FR)

– Federico Luger Gallery, Milan ©

2007 – Annarumma 404, Milan

2005 – Musée d’Art Modern and Contemporain (MAMCO), Configurations,  Genève

– Musée d’Art Modern and Contemporain (MAMCO), Connexions, série Bonus  Genève

– FRAC Languedoc- Rousillon, Montellier, France ©

– Musée PAB, Alès, France ©

– Gallery 101, Ottowa, Canada 2004

– Musée d’Art Modern and Contemporain (MAMCO) Genève

2003 – Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan ©

– Galleria 404 arte contemporanea, Naples

– FRAC BRETAGNE, Rennes, France ©

– Le Grand Café, saint Nazaire, France 2002

– College Marcel Duchamp, Châteauroux,  France

– FRAC LIMOGES, Limoges, © 2001 – Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,

Melbourne

2000 – Vilma Gold Gallery, London

– C/O non-profit Gallery, Milan 1999

– Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Gallery, Paris

1998 – Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, FRAC Rhône Alpes, Lyon ©

1996 – Paolo Vitolo gallery, Milan 1996

– FRAC LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON, Galerie ESCA, Nimes, ©

1993 – FAC-SIMILE Gallery, Milan

1992 – Espaj Pascual Lucas, Valencia © 1992 –

1991 – FAC-SIMILE Gallery, Milan  ©

1989 – FAC-SIMILE Gallery, Milan

1986 – Galerie ESCA, Nimes

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 – Naturalia et Artificialia. Eccentric Art & Research’s first exhibition. Milan

2015 – Les mondes inverses, BPS22, Charleroi

– Per-Formare, Museo Madre, Napoli

– Rewind, Museo del 900, Castel Sant’elmo, Napoli

2013 – P. Bonelli, Mantova

– NOUVELLES IMPRESSIONS DE RAYMOND ROUSSEL, Palais de Tokio, Paris

2012 – Carta Bianca. Museo Villa Croce, Genova

2011 – ZKM, The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989, Karlsruhe

– Il bel paese dell’arte. Gamec Bergamo

2010 – Seconde Main, Musèe d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris

2009 – That’s All Folks, Cultuurcentrum, Brugge

– Là où je suis n’existe pas,  Musée d’Art Moderne et  Contemporain, Toulouse

– Les Uns et les Autres – Le portrait dans tous ses états.Musée d’art et d’histoire de S.Briec

2008 – Le Couloir des Miroirs  (Art &Cinéma), FRAC Limousin, Limoges.

2007 – P2P-Échanges, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2006 – Chauffe Marcel ( L’imitation de Marcel Duchamp ), Montpellier

– Moléculles Particulières, Espase François-Auguste Ducros. Grignan, Frac Rhône Alpes

2005 – L’HUMANITÉ MISE À NU ET L’ART EN FRAC”, Casino Luxembourg,

Luxembourg

– OK, OKAY Swiss Institute, New York – OK, OKAY Gray Art Gallery, New York

– Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, Italy 2004

– Welcome to Entropia, Centre nationald’Art et du paysagge, Vassivière, curated by Yannick Millloux

– Utopia Station, Incursione Vesuviana, Napoli, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio

2003 – Une collection de Chefs-d’oeuvre, FRAC Limousin, Limoges

– Isola (art) project”, Mamco,  Genève

– Napoli Anno Zero, Castel Sant’Elmo, Napoli, curated by  di G. Maraniello

2002 – Rumors of war, Jacob Lawrence Foundation, Nex York, curated by Franklin Sirmans

2001 – Biennale di Tirana, Tirana

– Il Dono  Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, curated by  G. Maraniello, A. Somaini, S. Risaliti

– Ghosty  Galleria 1000eventi, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio

2000 – Hallucinating Love Foundation , Maze Art gallery, Torin curated by G.  Del Vecchio

– Fantapop, Fondazione Bevilacqua La masa, Venezia, curated by V. Baradel

1999 – First Melburne International Biennal, Melburne, curated by Jen Budney and  Roberto Pinto

– Un jardin d’ hiver, Bourg-en-Bresse, collection Frac Rhône-Alpes

1998 – ART OMI, International Artist Residency Exhibition; Ghent, NY.cuarted by Franklin

Sirmans

– Subway, Milano, curated by Roberto Pinto

– due o tre cose che sò di loro, P.A.C. Milano, curated by Marco Meneguzzo

1997– Gamblers, Mediarte Caserta, curated by M. Sgroi

– Il Punto, Galleria Continua, S. Gimignano curated by Elio Grazioli

1996 – Photopeintres, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

– Procius, works in slides, selected by Emily Tsingou, London

– Tradition & Innovation,Italian Art since 1945,National Museum of Contemporary

  • Art,

Seoul , Korea curated by Francesco Bonami

1995 – APERTO 95 out of order, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, curated  by Roberto

D’Aolio

– Verso una grande collezione, Flash Art Museum, Trevi curated by  H.Kontova

1994 – Procreation, Centre d’Art contemporain FRI-ART, Fribourg (CH)

– Prima Linea, Flash Art Museum, Trevi,curated by Francescao Bonami 1991

– Something is happening in Italy,  Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples 1989

1989 – Winner of Saatchi & Saatchi’ prize, Milan

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museo MADRE, Naples

BPS 22, Charleroi, ( BE )

Museo del 900, Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples

MAMCO, Genève (www.mamco.ch/artistes_fichiers/D/dimatteo2.html) (www.mamco.ch/artistes_fichiers/D/dimatteo.html)

FRAC Bretagne  ( www.fracbretagne.fr/collection.html )

FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon (http://frac-lr.videomuseum.fr/Navigart/index.php?db=fraclr&qs=1&Itemid=156 )

FRAC Limousin (www.fraclimousin.fr/content/view/27/60/ )

FRAC Rhône-Alpes

ARTOTHÈQUE, Lyon www.bm-lyon.fr/decouvrir/collections/dimatteo.htm

PAC, Milano

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Marco Bazzini, La pittura e il suo doppio, Arte, N° 488, 2014

Giorgio Verzotti, Art Forum, N° 10 Summer 2011

François Michaud, The Complexity, Matteo in the catalogue “ Jackson Pollock-Une vie, element et document”. Federico Luger, Milan

Giorgio Verzotti, Gabriele Di Matteo in the catalogue “ Jackson Pollock-Une vie, element et document”. Federico Luger, Milan

Andrea Viliani, in Contemporary-Conversations, n. 2, 2008.

Barbara Meneghel, in Flash Art, n. 268, 2008

Andrea Viliani, book “Le peintre salue la mer” Frac Languedoc-Roussillon

Alessandro Rabottini “ We live together in a photograph of time “, book “Le peintre salue la

mer”  Frac Languedoc-Roussillon

Françoise Lonardoni “ Un critère de choix “book “Le peintre salue la mer”  Frac Languedoc-Roussillon

Gilda Williams, “ Painting from a distance “ book “Le peintre salue la mer”  Frac Languedoc-Roussillon

Marc Olivier Wahler “ Agent Double” book “Le peintre salue la mer” Frac Languedoc-Roussillon

A Constructed world, book “Le peintre salue la mer” Frac Languedoc-Roussillon

Giorgio Verzotti: Art Forum, February 2004

Andrea Viliani: Il Capitano e la battaglia della terza dimensione, Galleria Antonio Colombo. Milan

Roberto Pinto: L’inganno dell’inganno della pittura, cat. Voyage sur la terre

Gilda Williams: Vitamin P, Phaidon Publication

Giorgio Verzotti: “ Gabriele Di Matteo”, cat. FRAC Limousin

Francoise Lonardoni: “ Gabriele Di Matteo, cat. FRAC Limousin

Gabi Scardi: “Armando E il Topo”, cat. FRAC Limousin

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Gabriella Coslovich: “ Bare fact of history”  The Age, 20 February, Melbourne

Stuart Koop: “History Stripped Bare” ACCA, Melbourne

Gilda Williams: “History Stripped Bare” Vilma Gold Gallery, London

Neal Brown: “The naked truth about contemporary art” The Independent, 10/09/00

Jean-Yves Jouannais: “La nuda Umanità”  Art/Press N° 257 Mai 2000

Giulio Ciavoliello:”Am I a work of art ?” Care/off show, 2000

Jean-Yves Jouannais: “Les ruines circulaires” cat. The blind man, Bibliotèque Municipale de Lyon,

Giorgio Verzotti: “Impressions of images” cat. The blind man, Bibliotèque de Lyon,1998

Roberto Pinto: “Stranger Knoching” cat. Melbourne International Biennal, 1999

Giorgio Verzotti: Gabriele Di Matteo, Flash Art N° 203 aprli-maggio 1997

Jen Budney: “Five Paintings”, ART+TEXT, may 97

Delphine Charrueau: “ Photopeintries” Casino Luxembourg

Roberto Pinto: ”Alfabetizzazione”  cat. della mostra

Francesco Bonami: “Italian Art since 1945” cat. ediz. Museum of contemporary Art,Korea

Roberto D’Aolio: APERTO 95 aut of order, cat. ediz. Galleria d’Arte Moderna    Bologna

Francesco Bonami: “Prima Linea” cat. edizione Trevi Flash Art Museum

Lis Ott: Art Press,

Grazia Quaroni: “La mesure du temps”, Catalogo FRAC Languedoc Roussillon,1994

Horatio Goni: CIMAL International, gennaio 1993 Rafael Pic: Art Press n° 180, 1993

Maurizio Bortolotti: Tema Celeste N° 41, estate 1993

Grazia Toderi:  Flash Art Italia N° 175, 1993

Roberto Pinto: Gabriele Di Matteo  Flash Art Italia N°171

Gianni Romano: Temporale, N° 28 Lugano 1992

Paolo Levi: Capital , ottobre 1991

Gianni Romano: Lapis International,  giugno 1991

Giulio Ciavoliello: Flash Art Italia N° 162

Giorgio Verzotti: Gabriele Di Matteo, Art Forum N° 9, 1991

Giorgio Verzotti: “Biography” cat. Fac-Simile gallery 1991

Giacinto Di Pietrantonio: Flash Art Italia , Ott/Nov 1990

Giorgio Verzotti: Flash Art Italia N°158

Maria Teresa Roberto:  Gabriele Di Matteo, Flash Art N° 157,

Giovanni Joppolo: “La scena Italiana”, Opus International, N° 119

Grazia Quaroni:  Gabriele Di Matteo,  Flash Art

Giorgio Verzotti:  Gabriele Di Matteo,  Fac-Simile Gallery 1989