Italy

Matteo Massagrande

Varese

PUNTO SULL'ARTE International Contemporary Art

Painting

Pini marittimi

Primo sole

Sopra il mare

Mare d'inverno

Luci della Grecia X

Luci della Grecia XIV

Luci della Grecia VII

Veranda azzurra

Mare lontano

Palazzina di caccia

Sole di agosto

Luci della Grecia XX

Luci della Grecia IX

Porte bianche

Porto

After exhibiting alongside the works of Van Gogh and in the prestigious Fralin Museum of Art in the United States, MATTEO MASSAGRANDE returns to PUNTO SULL'ARTE Gallery in Varese. The artist, for his new solo exhibition entitled "SENZA BUSSARE", will present 18 new works of different size. The Opening Reception will be held on SATURDAY, March 23 from 11am to 1pm at the main Gallery in Viale Sant’Antonio, 59/61, Varese (Casbeno). PUNTO SULL'ARTE is honored to host this exhibition, as the artist has not held solo exhibitions in private spaces in Italy since 2017 as he has been engaged in many prestigious museum exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. These include "Canto dolente d'amore (last day of Van Gogh)"at the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, "Around Van Gogh" at the Centro San Gaetano in Padua in 2021, as well as constant participation in the most important art fairs such as Fine Art Asia, Art Miami and Expo Chicago. The title of the exhibition is inspired by a verse by the Hungarian poet Jòzsef Attila, «You can enter without knocking once I have fallen in love with you», indicating how one enters the rooms painted by Massagrande in absolute freedom, without constraint, with the complete ability to marvel at a detail, a colour, an object. Alongside the most beloved objects, the interiors touched by the sun's first rays, the verandas like eyes over the blue of the sea, a body of works tells of Greece, its lights and smells, the patches of green around the houses, the vine in front of the entrance. An almost magical landscape, reproduced superbly, thanks to long and refined colouristic research, which with time has become almost a philosophical challenge. Among the greatest exponents of new Italian figurative painting, Matteo Massagrande, who lives and works between Padua and the Hungarian city of Hajòs, and is also an engraver and restorer, represents in his paintings abandoned rooms in which the main protagonist is the light, which dances illuminating antique arabesque floors, creates fascinating shadows and invites the viewer to remember that time is a deception. His language wonderfully synthesizes the lessons of the great Flemish and Venetian masters and those of the most modern figurative research, always with one eye on his “idols” Pieter de Hooch and Van Eyck, and Balthus and Chagall, from which he borrowed the secrets of light.  For Massagrande that which gives life to a painting is a particular state of mind, almost a shiver, not the emotion of the moment. «I have never wanted to “stop the moment”, as in nineteenth-century Parisian painting, which focused on the moment and represented immobility, instead I would like movement to become eternal. Mine are emphasized moments, in the paintings I weave praise of everyday life, of normality”», we read in the show's critical text. «Every day we eat bread, and every day it seems new again, so crunchy and fragrant, we never get used to it, yet we always taste it: this is what I want for my paintings, where everyday life is neither ironic or monotonous, and there is the beauty of the known. As a child I observed the closed rooms, you could say I spied on them: not anymore, they must lead to something else, otherwise the painting becomes a still life of chairs and furniture».


SENZA BUSSARE

SENZA BUSSARE

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