Solo exhibition by Mattia Riami presented for the first time at Spazio Solido
Exposure period from 3/03/2023 to 12/03/2023
Texts: Garance Laporte and Mattia Riami
Supervision: Annalisa Tornabene
Photographs cataloging artworks: Ugo Carmeni
Mattia Riami’s exhibition at the Spazio Solido was born from the desire to highlight his current research at the Accademia di Venezia.
The nine works of art presented here were created specifically for the occasion and are a direct consequence of the studies that the artist is carrying out now in the Academy, in particular with Professor Annalisa Tornabene.
If Mattia Riami’s current research is fundamentally dedicated to the human figure, he decided to place this studio in an architectural space intended as a place, box, container, designed and represented by a line omnipresent in all his works.
In fact, the first gesture of architectural space is to welcome our human bodies. By offering them a living space, it allows them to shelter, move and meet. Man and architecture influence each other. Many architects wonder about this coexistence, because renewing our thinking about space requires reconsidering the human body. This is also the aim of Mattia Riami’s research: to present the relationship between body and space.
Knowing that the latter is experimenting with new languages with the direct line, without the possibility of going back that digital offers, suggests a spontaneity and a new genuineness. This leads us to reflect on contemporary artistic and literary representations of the relationship between body and space. In fact, some plastic proposals of designed performances activate a relationship of interdependence, with the body and space acting together to bring out the work.
In these practices, the performer’s body is entirely stimulated by movement through the more or less restricted space that it invests. In the drawn performance, the action of drawing is what constitutes the work.
Mattia Riami’s work in full experimentation, can be linked to performative art. His human figures, which recall many sources of inspiration from art history such as the work of Marlene Dumas or the movements of the bodies of the Japanese dance Ankoku Butoh founded by Kazuo Ohno, become themselves the bodies of the performer. Or rather, Mattia Riami becomes himself the puppeteer of this designed performance, exploring these new languages that feed his artistic path.
SIZE: 56x76 cm
Acrylic and pastels on paper Fabriano Artistico Traditional White 300g