Exhibitions
Mateo Maté unfolds his cartography of the conflict at the SELTZ Gallery
“I am trying to give back to art what the war took away,” says Mateo Maté.
Last April, the new contemporary art gallery SELTZ by Ritter Ferrer landed in Barcelona under the direction of Lorena Pizarro and the advice of José Luis Pérez Pont. New formats and languages with exhibitions of painting, through conceptual art to urban art, photography and sculpture.
Located at Balmes Street, 54, in the Eixample of Barcelona, SELTZ by Ritter Ferrer, presents since June 26 the solo exhibition by the artist Mateo Maté entitled Timeless Landscapes. The new gallery becomes the epicenter of the city's artistic world and a point of reference within the contemporary circuit, unifying rigor, sensitivity and depth.
Solo exhibition by Mateo Maté, Timeless Landscapes
In this new exhibition, Mateo Maté reconstructs nineteenth-century landscapes using fragments of military uniforms from armies from different parts of the world. Maté creates a direct connection between the visual language of impressionism and its subsequent appropriation to wear military camouflage.
The journey created at SELTZ by Ritter Ferrer from the exhibited works transports the gaze to an exercise of symbolic justice and visual criticism, where the landscapes lead into the interior of the memory of the conflict and the tensions between beauty and violence. José Luis Pérez Pont, curator of the show at the Barcelona gallery, the exhibition examines how images can operate as forms of manipulation or resistance, and how the symbolic infiltrates the everyday with ethical and political consequences.
Solo exhibition by Mateo Maté, Timeless Landscapes
From June 26 to September 12, Timeless Landscapes is to link visual oversaturation and environmental crises through a reconstruction of natural textures with conflict. A look of tension, criticism, rethinking and questioning.
SELTZ's programming will run parallel to the list of artists with a recognized career such as the aforementioned Mateo Maté, including Miaz Brothers, Iván Forcadell, Rosa Brun, Mónica Jover Calvo, Marina Capdevila, Frances Torres among others. Mateo Maté's exhibition is part of the gallery's double exhibition program created under curatorial identity, as it is completed with L'immagine che aspetta by the artistic tandem Miaz Brothers.
