MATTEO CASALI

Matteo Casali was born in Schio in northern Italy in 1994 and recently completed his degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. 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, typically portrayed in a domestic setting. Using as his starting point photographs of family members and close friends, he creates intimate yet estranged images of his subjects. Casali thus uses the landscape of the home to underscore the dominant mood of alienation and loneliness.

Despite his young age, Casali has already held a number of exhibitions that have brought him to the attention of art critics and galleries across the country. He has won several prizes for his work and his latest painting to be awarded, Abbraccio a distanza, is to be found in the gallery collection.