May 4, 2008
THIS WEEK IT'S THE AMANDA BROWDER SHOW!!! GUEST STARRING TONY
MATELLI!!!
Tony Matelli has always been interested in the underdog. He has
become well known for his hyper-realistic sculptures often
depicting characters and things just barely getting by; things
nearly dead, hopelessly lost or otherwise totally unwanted. These
sculptures serve as metaphors for our own social malaise and our
general struggle for survival. They mimic inner states of
desolation, panic, ambivalence and despair; frequent conditions
associated with trying to locate ones self within our social
world.
Tony Matelli has exhibited extensively in the US and in Europe.
His work was most recently seen in “5 Billion Years,? at the Palais
de Tokyo, Paris, and Into Me/Out of Me, at P.S. 1 MOMA New York,
travelling to KW Berlin Institute of Contemporary Art. Upcoming
projects include Evolution: Tony Matelli/Alexis Rockman,
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Still Life, at the Dunedin
Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, and Die Macht der Dinge -
The Power of Things, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin.
Also Duncan tries out his acting chops, with mixed
results.