MATTEO IS PUSHING THE BARRIERS OF WHAT IS TRADITIONALLY DEFINED AS ART. HIS UNIQUE PIECES, FEATURING INTRIGUING VIDEO SCULPTURES, INCORPORATE SOUND & SCREEN. ANN SHITILIA THE ASSOSCIATED PRESS

A los Angeles based artist is pushing the barriers of what is traditionally defined as art. His unique pieces, featuring intriguing video sculptures incorporate sound and screen. -Ann Shitila Associated Press

Absolutely surprising and compelling. His ideas are sophisticated, emotionally nuanced, with challenging ideas and impressive craftsmanship. His forms combine the twin fantasies of science fiction with sensuality, and above all do not resemble traditional notions of what sculpture, video, or indeed any other work of art should look like. Shana Nys Dambrot, Art Editor LA WEEKLY

MATTEO's work is a unique way of experiencing new media fused with sculpture. His technology driven sculptures reference the mediated post-modern experience through the fusion of the physical and virtual. His work has an elegant and refined presence, while light and animated imagery reflect fragments of and references to the contemporary visual culture that shapes our social environment. -Dr. Catherine Amadon Art Historian, Curator...

I think the works are brilliant. When art can really GRAB you, you're focused on it and you're really trying to understand and relate to the artist, then its done what every artists wants and that is the attention of people. To relate to their own personal being as well as relate to the work. I think that these works represent all of that. It's 2008 and five years ago video art was just starting to come into its position in the art world. You see a lot of video art, this work actually, and for the first time, and what makes it so unique, is that you can actually BUY and enjoy video art in MATTEOs sculptural piece in your living room. Jeff Marinelli - Publisher & Editor ART and Living Magazine

Dr. Catherine Amadon Art Historian, Fine Art Curator, Two Time Full Bright Scholor

The video constructs created by Los Angeles new media upstart Matteo could belong equally in gallery, home, museum or the wilder provinces of Burning Man. This crossover of cultural loci is achieved through his seamless implementation of beauty in form and cogent critique; all delivered with heavy dollop of pop sensibility. His tone is sexy and ironic, brutal though his analysis is often that of serious issues he is always funny, colorful and engaging. Rex Bruce Founder & Director Los Angeles Digital Arts Center

He who says that "It has all been done before" has not seen the work of video artist, MATTEO. The content is rich, polished yet varies across many visual landscapes. Each art film has an uncanny way of drawing you in and intimatly so. This work isn't viewed on a TV, that is to say, as we know them because MATTEO designs and builds his own. Each distinctivly different from the next not just in shape and size, but in ways of the delivery of the image itself. So, yes, it's so completly unlike anything you or anyone has ever seen, you MUST see it to truly appreciate this outstanding work.

Edgar Valera Fine Art Los Angeles

MATTEO IS PUSHING THE BARRIERS OF WHAT IS TRADITIONALLY DEFINED AS ART. HIS UNIQUE PIECES, FEATURING INTRIGUING VIDEO SCULPTURES, INCORPORATE SOUND & SCREEN. ANN SHITILIA THE ASSOSCIATED PRESS

MATTEO does exceptional, probing work and conceptually intriguing work. In an art world where, after many years, I often feel there is little new under the sun, I was awed by the work he showed me at Art Basil in Miami where I met him. The variety within his oeuvre bespeaks of his staying power, this is no one-act play. MATTEO’s passions and talent lie in new media and video art combined with sculpture, a complex combination with infinite possibilities. His work and accolades in the design, commercial entertainment and advertising industries have kept him on the edge of contemporary culture in the broadest sense. His lack of indoctrination by the art school system has whole-heartedly worked in his favor. He has taught himself everything he needs to know to realize his many visions and inscapes MATTEO is in a peripheral position as a cultural observer who brings the outside in and brings people in with him. He creates an art that the public and connoisseur’s can work with in ways familiar to them from the ubiquitous Internet experience while adding layers of visual complexity. His art responds to, challenges and reinvents the technology driven changes in human interaction and communication. MATTEO fluidly moves between forms constructed in real space and forms constructed in virtual space. These constructs are objects as well as sets/sites of action that may or may not be realized. His work is fraught with tension between the real and unreal, where ‘action’ is based on physical and mental activity of spectators who are pulled in to becoming participants. Matteo's work is a unique way of experiencing new media fused with sculpture. His technology driven sculptures reference the mediated post-modern experience through the fusion of the physical and virtual. His work has an elegant and refined presence, while light and animated imagery reflect fragments of and references to the contemporary visual culture that shapes our social environment.

-Dr. Catherine Amidon publishes on art and new media in juried publications, magazines and exhibition catalogues.

She has curated over thirty national and international exhibitions including a pavilion at the Venice Biennial. She was recently awarded a second Fulbright. She worked at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris while completing her Doctorate from the Sorbonne.

burning man festival favorite MATTEO offers up new video-sculptures which contrast constructed objects with the images of embedded video screens. -Los Angeles Times

"A MASTER OF NEW MEDIA"