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Matteo Basilé – “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, in Milan at Galleria PACK – SPAZIO 22


After having climbed the Apuan Alps and having reached the quarries of that marble used by Michelangelo to create the “Pietà” looking for the sublime, the journey of #matteobasile continues through volcanic fields, where fire meets the sea, leaving behind a desert the colour of the night. 
The molten rocks, smoothened by the winds of the Western Sahara is the new “passage”, where chimeric figures suspended in a sort of Martian scenery, seem to rise from the cracks that open on the volcanic slopes. Travelers coming from distant lands come in search of the “Center of the Earth”. 
Basilé, inspired by Jules Verne, tells in his shots, a sort of humanity that doesn’t belong to this world, that wants to reach, at any cost, the heart of it. Basilé’s aim is to liberate from these “savage stones” the presences that are trapped within, placing them in a scenery where sculpture, architecture and painting merge together to emphasize the human figure, always at the core of his research, even if mutated in multiple iconographic references. 
At Galleria Pack, about ten shots of big size will be displayed, where terrestrial and human landscapes will bring the audience to an extraordinary journey. 
MATTEO BASILÉ WAS BORN IN 1974 IN ROME, WHERE HE LIVES AND WORKS.
He began his career during the mid-’90s and he was one of the first artists in Europe to blend art and technology. Basilé has the extraordinary ability to conciliate opposite ideas such as beautiful and grotesque, real and surreal, natural and artificial. While exploring the natures of human being, the artist develops his own story by splitting his work into chapters: The Saints are Coming (2007), Thisoriented (2009), Thishumanity (2010), Landing (2012), UNSEEN (2014): a series of independent passages in which the artist negotiates his perception of the existence. The research of Basilé is an interface between Orient and West culture, an interposed dialectic which operates as a collision between tradition and modernity, sacred and profane.
The Glossary of Basilé is based not only on timeless and multicultural signs and values, but also visually includes a totalizing language in which Dream is no more the subject of photography but rather embodies a totally recognisable and limitless narration. His (anti heroes) portraits thoroughly refer us to classic history, but at the same time they infuse the spirit of our time. Contrary to Goya’s “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos”, here Dream and Reason converge into an epiphany where the Unique and the Multiple instill a perfect equilibrium between intellect and sensorial perception.
The poetics of #matteobasile is an iconographic universe, it’s the result of the combination between technological Manierism and pictorial Surrealism. The dreamlike journey of the artist drives us towards different levels of comprehension, both sensorial and intellectual.
Formally, Basilé erases the antagonism between the Unreal and the Real, triggering a complex system of emotional sliding doors.
#matteobasile – “Journey to the Center of the Earth” 
30 March – 28 May 2017 
Galleria PACK – SPAZIO 22 Viale Sabotino, 22 – Milan, 20135