Bio
Mattia Sugamiele was born in 1984 in Erice (TP). He currently lives and works in Milan.
After graduating in production and audio-video at the IED in Milan, he developed a particular interest in artistic practices and decided to enroll at the Brera Academy in Milan, where he obtained a degree in Visual Arts with a focus on painting in 2016. During his academic journey, he participated in various group exhibitions, including the First Art Biennale of Trapani curated by Antonio Sammartano (2013), Grafica in Opera at Villa Gori (Lucca, 2013), the collective exhibition New Looks at the Magi Museum (Pieve di Cento, BO, 2014), Possible Loves at the Ex Studio by Piero Manzoni (Milan, 2014), and Future Painting at Spazio Rivoli 2 by Roberto Casiraghi (Milan, 2016). Alongside his painting practice, Sugamiele integrates the musical dimension, realizing a project of sound painting MM/SS performed at the Meet Factory (2014), at the European Photography Festival (Reggio Emilia, 2014), and at Café Central (Brussels, 2015).
Starting from 2017, the artist dedicated himself entirely to the development of his research with a residency period at Viafarini (Milan 2020-2021) with exhibitions at Photo Israel (Tel Aviv, 2017), Palazzo Oneto at Manifesta 12 (Palermo, 2018), participating in the Festival Studies Initiatives (Milan, 2018 and 2019) and the first edition of Rea Fair (Milan, 2020).
Sugamiele's work focuses on matter, digital textures, cellophane reflections, and plastic. Intrigued and attracted, as if by a screen, we approach familiar forms with surprising consistencies. An abstraction of shapes and colors where an aesthetic re-elaboration of the present finds its space, and where today's digital and interconnected world is manifested in indirect but very clear forms.
"I am interested in the transformation of the image, which changes, until it disappears, often deprived of the system of signs that it was able to evoke, creating a void in which technology finds its space. My research explores the interaction between humans, along with their memories, actions, desires, hopes, and the evolution of the technological sphere that shapes our contemporary world."
And it is in this contemporary panorama, made famous by Jeff Koons' Balloon Dogs, that Mattia Sugamiele's art fits in, but he rejects the industrial repeatability of Koonsian design and rediscovers, while using similar textures and colors, the beauty of manual work.
Esposizioni
Main Exhibitions:
2023 - (Bipersonale) Artemis, Spazio 15, Brescia
2023 - Invited to the European Commission in Brussels to represent with one work the Innovation fund: Financing Innovative Clean Tech Conference
2022 - Art Verona Fair, Labs Contemporary Stand
2022 - Camera Tripla, curated by Leonardo Regano’, Labs Contemporary, Bologna
2022 - Nuwa city, curated by Anna Vittoria Magagna, Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno
2021 - La società delle Mangrovie - Solo Show - Alessandro Albanese Gallery, Milano
2021 - Die Digitale, Dusseldorf
2021 - Art On Video, curated by Chiara Guidi, projecy by Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno
2021 - Circa Museum, Corea del Sud
2021 - Edicola Radetzsky, Address Unknown, Milano
2021 - A.topos, Venezia
2021 - Arthbite by Nicoletta Rusconi
2021 - Premio Viviani, Milano
2021 - Hangar Photo Art Center, The world within, FotoBrussels Festival05
2020 - VIR ViaFarini artist in residence, Milano
2020 - Rea Fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
2019 - Walk-In studi festival, studio (111), Milano
2018 - Palazzo Oneto, on the occasion of Manifesta 12, Palermo
2017 - Open Studi Art Festival, studio (111), Milano
2017 - Photo Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 - Piola Libri, Bruxelles
2016 - MagnetikZone curated by Antonio Sammartano - Museo civico Torre di Ligny, Trapani
2016 - Pittura Futura, Spazio Rivoli 2, group exhibition curated by Roberto Caslraghi, Milano
2015 - Sound Paintings Performance MM/SS, Cafè Central, Bruxelles
2014 - Amori Possibili, group exhibition curated by Pierluigi Buglioni, Ex Studio Piero Manzoni, Milano
2014 - Sound Paintings Performance MM/SS, Festival Fotografia Europea 014, Teatro Cavallerizza, Reggio Emilia
2013 - Live Performance Sound Paintings, Meet Factory, Prague
2013 - Museo Magl 900, group exhibition Nuovi Sguardi, Pieve di Cento, Bologna
