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band-eng Antonello Matarazzo is painter, director and video artist.
He worked at the the Bellini Theatre in Catania (Italy) as assistant director and costume designer. Since 1990 he's engaged in his personal search concerning the visual arts. His work takes place in the most recent tendency called "Medialismo", intended to integrate different media (photo, picture, video et.). Since 2000, year of his debut video, The Fable (18° Bellaria Film Festival) – a short film produced by Raitre – he has combined moving works with "still" ones, shifting from film-making to paintings and taking part in many national and international festivals (Mostra Cinematografica di Venezia, Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, Torino Film Festival, Festival du Film sur l'Art de Montréal, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Film Festival Locarno). In 2006, a whole retrospective of his works took place within the 42° Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro. In 2009 he makes the first medium film, a documentary, Latta e cafè (4° Festival Int.le del Film di Roma), produced by Luigi and Aurelio De Laurentiis of Filmauro.
In some Universities, such as Brera, Chieti, Genova, Salerno, Pisa and Cambridge, his short films have been shown as a part of seminars and workshops.


Selected exhibitions

10 Das Kleine Kino / Flussi digital transitions 2010, edited by Pasquale Napolitano – Teatro Carlo Gesualdo, Avellino
10 Rifrazioni 2010 - Amaro Ammore | morphing sentimentale con discesa a mare, edited by Canio Loguercio, organized by Rifrazioni 2010 – ex Divina Provvidenza, Nettuno RM
10 Les Temps Forts D'Heure Exquise! - Videoarti italiane, edited by Sandra Lischi – Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille (FR) PDF
10 Sentieri Barocchi, organized by Flussi digital transitions – Castello degli Imperiale Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi AV, Convento di San Francesco a Folloni, Montella AV LINK
10 59 Seconds (and beyond), edited by Irina Danilova and Hiram Levy – Spectre Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (USA)
10 Italia Doc, edited by Maurizio Di Rienzo – Casa del Cinema, Roma
09 VideoAgorà, edited by Silvana Annichiarico – Triennale Design Museum, Milano LINK
09 Fisheye / Fishlive, edited byi Bruno Di Marino – Nuovo Cinema Aquila, Roma LINK
09 Flussi digital transitions 2009, organized by Flussi digital transitions – Teatro Carlo Gesualdo, Avellino
09 "Détournement Venise 2009" - Evento collaterale alla 53. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte La Biennale di Venezia, video resigns edited by Elizabet Glukstein; organized by the art & architecture factory – Palazzo Albrizzi, Venezia PDF LINK
09 Cairano 7x - Documentaria, edited by Franco Arminio – Cairano, AV LINK
09 Fish-Eye - breve storia del cinema e del video sperimentale italiano dal Futurismo al digitale, edited by Bruno Di Marino – Skola Wysza Psychologii Spolecznej , Varsavia (PL)
09 "Détournement Venise 2009" - Collateral event of 53. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte La Biennale di Venezia, edited by Elizabet Glukstein, Ada Bloomfield, Michal Meron, Juan Puntes, Wolf Günther Thiel, Regula Tschumi; organized by the art & architecture factory – Several places (Molino Stucky), Venezia PDF LINK
09 Reliquaries of Empires Dust, edited by Adam Nankervis – Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin (D) LINK
09 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova, Hiram Levy, Tatyana Tenenbaum – The Tank, New York (USA) LINK
09 "Shingle22" - Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea di Anzio e Nettuno, organized by Associazione Culturale 00042 – Castel Sangallo, Nettuno, RM LINK
08 41° Parallelo, edited by Timisoara Pinto, organized by Têtes de Bois – Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Piano Nobile, Valmontone, RM
08 Arte Brescia 2008, stand Studio Vigato – Fiera di Brescia exhibition pavilions, Brescia
08 Sguardi Sonori 2008, Sixsecondsaroundme, edited by Antonio Manfredi, organized by FaticArt – CAM_Casoria, Casoria, NA LINK
08 Camera con vista, edited by Adriana Rispoli, Eugenio Viola – PAN (Palazzo delle Arti), Napoli LINK
08 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova, Hiram Levy, organized by Hervé Constant – Studio 29, London (GB) LINK
08 Miserere Recto-Verso, organized by Ravello Festival – Villa Rufolo, Ravello, SA LINK
08 Sguardi Sonori 2008, Sixsecondsaroundme, organized by FaticArt – Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, VT LINK
08 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova, Hiram Levy, organized by Josephine Bonnet – Schauraum, Nürtingen (D)
08 Project 59, organized by Morten Kvamme – Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (N) LINK
08 Sguardi Sonori 2008, Sixsecondsaroundme, organized by FaticArt – Lanificio Conte, Schio, VI LINK
08 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova, Hiram Levy, organized by David Gryn – Artprojx Space, London (GB) LINK
08 Archeologie del futuro, edited by Marisa Vescovo, Alessandro Carrer – Studio Vigato, Castelceriolo AL LINK
08 Project 59, organized by Rahel Joseph – Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur (MAL)
08 Corti d'arte, edited by Irene Petrella – Chiostro di Sant'Agostino, Caserta
08 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova, organized by Jade Walker – Creative Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (USA) LINK
08 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova, organized by Laura Conchelos – B1 Lounge, South Pole / The University of Southern Maine, Portland (ME) LINK
08 Arte Fiera 2008, stand Galleria Studio Legale – Bologna Fiere exhibition pavilions, Bologna
07 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova, organized by Karl Lind – Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon (USA) LINK
07 The best of Invideo 2007, edited by Chicca Bergonzi, Romano Fattorossi, Sandra Lischi – Sala Tamagni, San Gimignano SI LINK
07 Made in Italy - Genius Loci, edited by Bruno Roberti / Archivio Raro video, edited by Bruno Di Marino – Filmstudio, Roma LINK
07 Attori/Spettatori, edited by Raffaele Curi, Bruno Di Marino – Fondazione Alda Fendi, Roma LINK
07 Project 59, organized by Tamara Alexandrovna Galeyeva – Center of Contemporary Culture, The Urals State University, Yekaterinburg (RUS)
07 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova – OkNo Gallery, Chelyabinsk (RUS) LINK
07 La posa infinita (solo exhibition), coordinated by Milano Doc Festival – Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milano LINK LINK
07 Project 59, edited by Irina Danilova – The Galaxie, Doc Films / University of Chicago, Chicago (USA)
07 Interreg III C - Noè, edited by Simona Isgrò, Valentina Valerio – Conseil de la Région PACA office, Marsiglia (F)
07 Opus Loci, edited by Daria Catalano, Simona Isgrò, Valentina Valerio – Grandi Magazzini Teatrali, Campobasso LINK
07 Conversazioni Video, edited by Rubino Rubini – Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milano
07 Miserere, projection edited by Canio Loguercio – PAN (Palazzo delle Arti), Napoli LINK
07 Videofusion1, edited by Gabriele Perretta – Studio.Ra Contemporanea, Roma LINK
07 Arte Fiera 2007, stand Galleria Six (StudioSei) – Bologna Fiere exhibition pavilions, Bologna
06 Miserere, projection edited by Canio Loguercio – Basilica di S. Maria in Ara Coeli, Roma
06 Bottom-up: circostanze dell'immagine mediale, edited by Gabriele Perretta – StudioSei Arte Contemporanea, Milano LINK
06 10 secondi (solo exhibition), coordinated by Fondazione RomaEuropa – Teatro Palladium, Roma
06 Friday I'm in Love, edited by Rubino Rubini – Centro Polivalente Villa Serena, Bologna
06 One Image Portrait, edited by Daniele Brocchi, Carlo Fatigoni – Fortezza Medicea, Cortona
06 Ad Hoc - archeologia del contemporaneo, edited by Gabriele Perretta – sedi varie, Sant'Agata dei Goti BN LINK
06 Profondoblu (videoretrospective), coordinated by Nuvole Arte Contemporanea – Rocca dei Rettori, Benevento
06 4° International design expo - Trasversalità, edited by Federica Dal Falco, Antonella Greco – Ex Magazzini Generali, Roma
06 10 secondi (solo exhibition) – Changing Role-Move Over Gallery, Napoli LINK | interview
06 22e Art Amsterdam KunstRAI (solo exhibition), stand StudioSei Arte Contemporanea – Amsterdam Art Fair exhibition pavilions, Amsterdam (NL)
06 Phoenix, A transformative Multi Media Co-creation, coordinated by Bayennale 2006 – Ghost Town Galleries, Oakland - California (USA)
06 Città Elettroniche, edited by Bruno Di Marino – Cinema-Teatro Augusteo, Salerno
06 Video On/On Video, edited by Bruno Di Marino – Arte Parma exhibition pavilions, Parma
06 p.I.T.t.u.r.a. (ipotesi figurative italiane), edited by Gianluca Marziani – StudioSei Arte Contemporanea, Milano LINK
06 Arco, stand Changing Role-Move Over Gallery – Arco exhibition pavilions, Madrid (SP)
05 Carta bianca, edited by Manuela De Noia – Nuvole Arte Contemporanea, Montesarchio BN
05 Miserere, projection edited by Canio Loguercio – Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
05 Solo exhibition , testi di Alfonso Amendola, Enrico Ghezzi, Gabriele Perretta, Marisa Vescovo – StudioSei, Milano LINK
05 Artissima 12, stand Changing Role-Move Over Gallery – Lingotto Fiere, Torino
05 Those Misunderstood, edited by Eugenio Viola, organized by Changing Role-Move Over Gallery – II Università degli Studi di Napoli, Capua CE
05 Fujiyama vs. Vesuvio (videoretrospective), edited by Alfonso Amendola, Antonello Tolve, coordinated by Doc Fest – Villa Campolieto, Ercolano NA
05 Plaid, edited by Vittoria Broggini, Emma Zanella – Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Gallarate VA
05 Arte/Scienza di Pace - 10 artisti campani per la pace, edited by Anna Cochetti, Enzo Battarra – Palazzo Fazio, Capua CE
05 Fair Play, edited by Laura Carcano, coordinated by MB47 Arte Contemporanea – Complesso Monumentale di S. Sofia, Salerno
05 Nei pressi della pietra rossa, edited by Gabriele Perretta – Villa La Colombaia, Ischia NA
05 Blog on Arthur Rimbaud, organized by Associazione Culturale Zazà – Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivara, Rivara TO LINK
05 XI Incontri d'Arte Contemporanea, edited by Anna Cochetti, Enzo Battarra – Museo Muditac/Majorana, Roma
05 I Mestieri di Érgon, edited by Gabriele Perretta – Palazzo "M", Latina
05 Nuove frontiere, coordinated by Doc Fest – Centro Pompei Life, Pompei NA
04 Miserere, projection edited by Canio Loguercio – Piccolo Apollo (Istituto Galilei), Roma
04 Gabbie (videoretrospective), edited by Nuvole Arte Contemporanea, coordinated by Associazione Teorema, Associazione Interzona – c/o Telenia, Bucciano BN
04 Gabbie (solo exhibition), text by Enrico Ghezzi – Nuvole Arte Contemporanea, Montesarchio BN LINK
04 XI Biennale d'Arte Sacra, edited by Carlo Chenis, Marisa Vescovo – Museo Staurós d'Arte Sacra Contemporanea, Isola del Gran Sasso TE
04 Quattro notti ...e più di luna piena (videoretrospective), organized by Iside Nova – Chiostro di San Domenico, Benevento
04 BovArchè - Meridiani d'Oriente (Biennale d'Arte di Venezia circuit), edited by Gabriele Perretta – Palazzo Mesiani, Bova RC
04 Primalia_immagini, schermi, spazi e riproducibilità, edited by Gabriele Perretta – Palazzo Cedir, Reggio Calabria
04 Media.comm(unity)/comm.medium, edited by Gabriele Perretta – Masedu-Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Sassari LINK
03 Magic Christmas, edited by Guido Cabib – Changing Role-Move Over Gallery, Napoli
03 il Volto - il Corpo, organized by e cura MB47 Arte Contemporanea – Palazzo Genovesi, Salerno
03 Testimoni per caso (solo exhibition), testi di Enrico Ghezzi, Marisa Vescovo – Studio Vigato, Alessandria LINK | LINK
03 Imago Mentis, edited by Gabriele Perretta – galleria Romberg, Latina / galleria La Giarina, Verona
03 Sorite: Stoà poikilè, edited by Gabriele Perretta – Centro Satura, Genova
02 Sud, (solo exhibition), text by Gabriele Perretta – Le Pleiadi Arte Contemporanea gallery, Mola di Bari BA LINK
00 Arte Video TV 2000, edited by Antonio D'Orazio, Elisa Zurlo, Gabriele Perretta – Centro Polivalente Villa Serena, Bologna
00 Miart, stand galleria Zonca&Zonca Arte Contemporanea – Fiera Milano exhibition pavilions, Milano
00 Stigma della riproducibilità/Archeologia e Futuro, edited by Gabriele Perretta – galleria Installart, Caserta
99 Il Bosco Sacro dell'Arte, edited by Angelo Trimarco, Giuseppe Zampino, Vincenzo Trione – Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Napoli
99 Aion (Laboratorio Politico di Fine Secolo), edited by Gabriele Perretta – Museo Archeologico, Formia LT LINK
98 Cineporto '98 (solo exhibition), stand Arte e Personae art gallery – Roma LINK
98 Freaks (solo exhibition), text by Gabriele Perretta – galleria Arte e Personae, Firenze LINK
98 Laboratorio Politico di Fine Secolo, edited by Gabriele Perretta – Teatro degli Artisti, Roma
97 Aperto '97, edited by Simona Barucco, organized by Flash Art – Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi PG LINK
97 Strisce, Pitture ed altre derive, edited by Gabriele Perretta – Studio Italia2, Roma
97 Arte Fiera '97, stand galleria Ellequadro Documenti – Bologna Fiere exhibition pavilions, Bologna
97 Oltre il mare, Oltre il Monte, edited by Angelo Trimarco, Ernesto D'Argenio – Chiesa di S. Lucia, Latina / Chiesa di S. Maria, Avellino / galleria Studio Legale, Caserta
97 Innocenti (solo exhibition), text by Gabriele Perretta – galleria L'Opificio Arte Contemporanea, Benevento LINK
96 Con-formati, Dif-formati, edited by Andrea Del Guercio – Living Art Gallery, Milano
96 Viaggio nel Paese di Giammai, edited by Raffaele Gavarro – galleria L'Opificio Arte Contemporanea, Benevento
96 Interfacce, edited by Raffaele Gavarro – Carcere Borbonico, Avellino
95 Dodicietrenta (solo exhibition), text by Raffaele Gavarro – Art Now gallery, Capua CE LINK
95 Composita '95, coordinated by Alliance Francaise – Casa della Cultura Victor Hugo, Avellino
95 Forme & Segni, organized by Associazione Guida Arte – Libreria Guida, Napoli
93 Tiptologia, edited by Francisco Fernandez, Pietrantoio Arminio, Antonello Matarazzo – Carcere Borbonico, Avellino
92 Solo exhibition , text by Giuseppe Selvaggi – Quadrato d'Idea, Roma
91 Matarazzo-Miro-Sabatello, edited by Giuseppe Selvaggi – Museo Trasporti, Budapest (H)


Film Festivals

10 Ravello Festival / Architettura e Design, Villa Rufolo, Ravello SA LINK
10 28. Festival Internazionale dell'Uruguay / Focus Italia, Montevideo (U)
10 4. NodoDocFest, Trieste LINK
10 Italia Doc, Casa del Cinema, Roma
10 12. 'O Curt, Institut Française Le Grenoble, Napoli
09 19. InVideo, Spazio Oberdan, Milano LINK
09 4. Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma, Roma LINK
09 20. São Paulo International Short Film Festival, São Paulo (BR)
09 45. Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro
09 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (D) PDF
09 8. !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival, Istanbul (TR) LINK
09 Reject Film Festival. Independent FF for current art and experiments, Rotterdam (NL) LINK
08 1. Festival de Cine Italiano de Madrid, Madrid (SP) LINK
08 3. Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma, Roma LINK
08 11. Italienska Filmfestival, Stoccolma (S)
08 FILE Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo (BR)
08 Agosto Cinema, Corciano PG
08 Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne (AUS) LINK
08 Crosstalk, Video Art Festival Budapest, Budapest (H) LINK
08 6. Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris (F) LINK
07 9. Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, Paris (F) LINK
07 17. InVideo, Spazio Oberdan, Milano
07 2. Festa del Cinema di Roma, Roma LINK
07 60. Festival del film Locarno, Locarno (CH) LINK
07 17. Festival Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina, Milano LINK
07 22. Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, B. Aires (RA) LINK
06 11. Roma Film Festival, (Eventi/Etrange), Roma
06 Sole e Luna Doc Fest, (Documentari allo Spasimo), Palermo
06 2. Festival d'Arte di Palazzo Venezia, (Nuovi linguaggi), Roma LINK
06 Passaggi d'Autore, Sant'Antioco, Carbonia-Iglesias
06 42. Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, (retrospective), Pesaro PDF | interview
06 CortoViterbo, Viterbo Best Cinematography
06 Reggio Calabria Film Festival, (retrospective), Reggio Calabria
06 24. Festival International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA), Montréal (CDN) LINK
06 Festival International de Film et Vidéo de Création, Beirut (RL)
05 15. InVideo, Spazio Oberdan, Milano
05 27. Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, Montpellier (F) LINK
05 62. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, Venezia LINK
05 3. Molise Cinema, Casacalenda CB
05 8. Expresión en Corto, Guanajuato (MEX) LINK
05 41. Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro
05 Festival d'Arte di Palazzo Venezia, (Nuovi linguaggi), Roma 1° Price LINK
05 4. Flaming Creatures 04_05, (Miglior cortometraggio italiano), Salerno
04 2. International Sasà Film Award, Catania
04 22. Torino Film Festival, (Spazio Italia), Torino LINK
04 26. Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, Montpellier (F) LINK
04 7. 'O Curt, Institut Française Le Grenoble, Napoli
04 International Film Festival of Fine Art, Szolnok (H)
04 7. Expresión en Corto, Guanajuato (MEX)
04 CinemadaMare, Nova Siri MT
04 Festival d'Arte di Palazzo Venezia, (Esperimenti), Roma LINK
04 12. Arcipelago, (E-Movie), Roma Special Mention LINK
04 23. Round, Rimini
03 21. Torino Film Festival, (Spazio Italia), Torino LINK | interview
03 Alternative Film Festival, Picciano PE
03 Medi-Art Festival, Pantelleria TP Special Mention
03 Incroci di Orizzonti, Pergine Valdarno AR 1° Price
03 11. Arcipelago, (Corto.web), Roma 1° Price LINK
03 21. Bellaria Film Festival, (Anteprima), Bellaria RN LINK
02 20. Torino Film Festival, (Spazio Italia), Torino LINK
01 6. Festival del Cinema Trash, Torino
01 13. FanoFilmFestival, Bellocchi di Fano PU
01 3. Morbegno Film Festival, Morbegno SO
01 19. Bellaria Film Festival, (Anteprimaannozero), Bellaria RN LINK
01 Festival del Cinema d'Amatore, Lioni AV Special Jiury Price
00 18. Bellaria Film Festival, (Anteprimaannozero), Bellaria RN


Video-filmography

Latta e café, docu (© 2009 col. DVcam 63') LINK
VeraZnunt (© 2008 b/n-col DV 6') VIDEO
Peopleconnection (© 2008 b/n-col DV 4') VIDEO
2 Novembre (© 2008 b/n-col DV 8'') VIDEO
4B movie (© 2007 col. DVcam 5') LINK
La posa infinita (© 2007 b/w DVcam 3x1' loop) VIDEO
Luna Zero (© 2007 col. DVcam 10') LINK
Mummy (© 2007 col. DVcam 3' loop) LINK
tribal TRIBAL (© 2007 col. DVcam 3') LINK
Piera e gli assassini (© 2007 col. DVcam 6') LINK
9 06 83 (© 2006 col. DVcam 4') LINK
Interferenze, docu (© 2006 col. DVcam 30') VIDEO
En plain air (© 2005 col. DVcam 10') VIDEO | LINK
Miserere (cantus), videoclip (© 2005 col. DVcam 8') VIDEO | LINK
Lovers, spot per Converse (© 2004 col. DVcam 45'') VIDEO
Apice (© 2004 col. DVcam 6') VIDEO | LINK
A Sua immagine (© 2004 col. DVcam 3') VIDEO | LINK
Miserere (© 2004 col. DVcam 19') VIDEO | LINK
Warh (© 2003 col. DV 8') VIDEO | LINK
La Camera Chiara (© 2003 b/w-col. DV 8') VIDEO | LINK
Astrolìte (© 2002 b/w-col. miniDV 40') VIDEO | LINK
Mi chiamo Sabino (© 2001 b/w-col. miniDV 11') VIDEO | LINK
Le cose vere (© 2001 b/w-col. miniDV 28')
Dance purge (© 2000 b/w-col. DV 9')
The Fable (© 2000 b/w-col. DV 9') VIDEO | LINK


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