Matteo Valerio
sculptor, Visual Artist
Ph. F. Marin
Matteo Valerio
sculptor, Visual Artist
(b. 1989, Tampa, USA) He graduated from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts and obtained a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins in London. He is the winner of both Italian and international awards, including: Art for the Environment by Lucy Orta and Fondazione Zegna, the Mona Hatoum scholarship, the NOVA Awards, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri/Museo TRA Treviso, Shanghai Prize by Fondazione Garuzzo, Fondazione Paolo and Marlene Fresco, 99 Collective Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, AIKU Project / Antica Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua.
His research explores the tension between manual and mechanised techniques, natural and chemical-industrial processes, between the time and savoir faire of traditional local craft practices and the frenetic pace and innovative techniques of contemporary production. He investigates the evocative qualities that his materials suggest, themselves becoming both container and contents of the work, object and subject.
In the spring of 2023 Valerio lived and worked in Villa Filanda Antonini. During this residency period, he created the works that formed the body of the exhibition Teuta hosted in the exhibition spaces of Villa Filanda Antonini.
