Mattia was born in Thiene, Italy October 6, 1985, and lives and works in Castelfranco Veneto (TV) ITALY. He graduated in visual communication at the European Institute of Design in Milan, then in fashion photography at the School of Visual Art in New York, and in Mixed Media Art at the Parson School, also in New York.
His work appears as a path of inner growth, conceived not only as an attempt to climb to the peaks of perfection, but also as a difficult route between disorientation, restlessness, tension.
His pieces visualize the plunging downwards, towards areas where conceptual reason loses confidence, but at the same time push to rise up to the summit of ideals. Concepts are proposed as a precipitate of visual paradoxes and dialectical tensions reached for a rebirth. The light, self-awareness, seems to suggest to this young artist-philosopher that you can reach only in silence, after going through difficulties and darkness. Thus, in the photographs Walls Urbane, gaze collides and is barred by the dark black walls - just crossed by a light touch of lightness, like a breath of hope - only to be dragged up in the series Abstract Shapes Town, in whose assets and candid glimpse of skyscrapers open in the infinite gloomy sky.
In the series of works in series resin, various objects are freed from the heavy burden of the matter into a crystalline transparency, an index of possible rebirth in a purity that is opposed to the evils of the world. Again the author depicts a sublimation process that does not deny the darkness and evil, but part of it and patiently, over time, moves toward the light. (Annamaria D' Ambrosio Art Curator)
Painting, photography, sculpture and installations, in the completeness of the multiple conceptual and operational approaches of Mattia Novello depicts against the face of the user an intense note in its objectivity regarding the existence of thought, man as a being, art as experimentation, and as primary index to indicate the relationships and the fact Fraintensioni as a process of struggle toward a truth that much does not exist.
(Alice Zanoni Art curator)