Emiliano D’Amato Mateo
Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Nueva sensibilidad”
Díptico.
Acrílico y Uniposca sobre lienzo.
“New sensitivity”
Diptych.
Acrylic and Uniposca on canvas
40 x 60 cm.
2019
Artist Statement:
I use as a metaphor for my generation -named Millennial- a group of characters wich i take from toys and cartoons of the 80s. I make them dialogue with current and critical issues as quarantine. In this way I start a conversation with new senses and sometimes abstract situations like the installation 'Study of anime pupils'. I work with erratic narratives endowed with humor as in the painting 'Fabulous contemporary evocation', where there is no beginning neither end, but both can be deduced by the spectator. The critical tone is also present, as in the diptych ‘New Sensibility’, or the drama present in ‘Uncomfortable zone '.
Bio:
Emiliano D’Amato Mateo was born in Tucumán in 1988. He recently lives and works in Buenos Aires, he is a Visual Artist, Bachelor of Plastic Arts (UNT) and independent researcher. He is currently finishing his postgraduate degree in Distance Specialization in Critical Texts and Media Diffusion of the Arts, from the National University of the Arts (UNA) in Buenos Aires. He recently published his first book ‘Current Art Strategies, How do visual artists operate today?’ With Editorial Académica Española. During 2012 he was on the artists staff and work team of the La Punta Gallery. Then, in 2015, he was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts with the following scholarships: Workshop-Seminar on Curatorial Practices in Visual Arts dictated by Diana Weschler and Carlota Beltrame; Workshop-Seminar on Theory and Criticism of Arts dictated by Elena Oliveras and Aldo Ternavasio; Theoretical cycle in Visual Arts dictated by numerous teachers and artists, including Sebastián Rosso, Carlota Beltrame, Ana Gallardo. Likewise, he participated in different individual, group shows, salons and fairs, locally, nationally and internationally, obtaining distinctions among them: Caps Art Prize, Nomadic Project (El Cuarto Naranja Gallery) Obtaining the 2nd Prize, 2013. 'Muy precious, Virtual Bicentennial Hall, Being an artist and being is very Important '(MUNT) Obtaining the 1st Prize, 2010. ART IN ISOLATION at the North Dakota Museum of Art, North Dakota, USA 2020. STILL RELEVANT at Happy Gallery Chicago, Chicago, USA 2020. DOT-DOT-DASH at Surface Gallery, Nottingham, Inglarerra, 2020. COVID-19 CREATIVE OUTLET in Vilnius, Lithuania 2020. Corona Portrait Project in Portland, Oregon, USA 2020. Fronteer LockDown Isolation Project in Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2020. Regional Painting Exhibition. Secretary of Culture, La Rioja NOA 2018. XI ° MUNT Contemporary Art Salon (Museum of the National University of Tucumán) 2015. ´Workshop C shows' MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Salta) Regional Projects of Contemporary Artists 1st Edition, 2014. 'Local / visitor.Visitor / local', Museo Mbamac (Bahía Blanca), 2014. 9th MUNT Contemporary Art Salon (Museum of the National University of Tucumán) 2012. ArteBA Contemporary Art Fair, Buenos Aires, Edition 21, 2012. XL ° Tucumán Salon for the national painting, Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Timoteo Navarro , 2011. 'Mobile Poetics' Contemporary Art Fair Puerto Madryn, 2010 Edition. Collective Exhibition at Casa Escópica, Bahía Blanca. 2010. Carlos María Navarro Plastic Arts Hall, Virla Cultural Center, Tucumán, 2008/2009. ‘Mini Super Art’ group exhibition, Atelier Freisenbergstrasse 40, Zurich, Switzerland, 2009.