ARTIST PROFILE

Matteo Varsi

  • Italy (b. 1970)
  • Currently in Levanto, Italy.
  • involving in expired photography material

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013

  • limbo, Interzone Gallery, Rome, Italy.

2012

  • this side ' o paradise, IED Istituto Europeo di Design, Milano, Italy.

2011

  • white circus, Pitti Uomo - Fortezza dal Basso, Firenze, Italy.

2009

  • white circus, Spazio 2 Circolo Culturale Bertolt Brecht, Milan, Italy.

2007

  • Judas, Primopiano gallery, Napoli, Italy.

2003

  • Foto and Photo Festival Off, Cesano Maderno, Milan, Italy.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013

  • PHOTOFESTIVAL, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France.

2012

  • lo sguardo degli altri, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Berlin, Germany.
  • Fine polaroid Art, Barbara Frigerio Contemporary Art gallery, Milan, Italy.
  • Polaroid: easy art ? , Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia L.Da Vinci, Milan, Italy.

2011

  • Arte Fiera Off, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy.
  • Connection, Picpoket gallery, Lisbona, Portugal.
  • My vision of an istant, Atelier du Poil, Paris, France.

2010

  • 10 anni sulla luna, Palazzo Pegorini, Parma, Italy.

2009

  • sguardi, Galleria Il Borgo, Milan, Italy.

2008

  • Possesso , Spazioeventi Mondadori p.zza San Marco, Venezia, Italy.
  • Super reality, primo piano contemporary art gallery, Lecce, Italy.
  • memories, primo piano contemporary art gallery, Lecce, Italy.

2007

  • Thanatos, Primopiano gallery, Napoli, Italy.

2006

  • un click di periferia . Circolo culturale Bertolt Brecht, Sala 1, Milan, Italy.
  • Festival Internazionale di Fotografia, linee metropolitane , Rome, Italy.

2005

  • Biennal Artexpò, pavillon photography, Mexico City, Mexico.

2003

  • premio Andersen, padiglione fotografia, Sestri Levante, Italy.
  • nonstop Madrid international artexpò, Feira international Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

2002

  • Fotoesordio, Università di Torvergata, Rome, Italy.

LOCATION

  • Born 1970 in Italy.
  • Lives and works in Levanto, Italy.

EDUCATION

  • 2003 - 2004
    I.I.F., Milan, Italy
    Photographer in fine arts (personal research)
  • 1991 - 1998
    Università di lingue e letterature straniere moderne, Genova, Italy
    foreign literatures in (thatre of absurd)

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2003
    I.I.F. scholarship
    Istituto Italiano di Fotografia, Milan, Italy

MEMBERSHIPS

  • 1998 - 2009
    Boomerangmedia agency, London, United Kingdom