MATTEO CASALI
Matteo Casali, born in Schio in northern Italy in 1994, holds a Master’s Degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Casali has won several noted prizes for his work and is already exhibiting with international galleries.
The artist works mainly in oil and acrylic on canvas and his bold, startling style clearly draws on the influence of Francis Bacon as well as the Nordic Expressionists. Casali focuses on the human figure, using as his starting point photographs of family members and close friends. He creates intimate yet estranged images of his distorted subjects, exploiting the landscape to underscore the dominant mood of alienation and loneliness. Despite the potential for bleakness, Casali draws out a tenderness in each of the characters and situations he represents.