Matteo Martini

I was born in Milan in 1964 in an art family. My professional training began in 1983 in a prestigious graphic studio in Milan, where I gathered the traditional and artisanal techniques of graphics. With the arrival of the first computers, I began to approach the world of publishing. Thanks to collaborations and exchange of topics and ideas to face a new way of working, I began to know the world of thematic publishing (from tourism to architecture) and I introduced myself to the graphic design of new editorial products. Cooperation with designers and companies from heterogeneous sectors enhanced my learning curiosity.

In the nineties I started a long partnership with a consulting, marketing and communication agency in the IT sector, where I started designing websites for companies that dealt with spreading tools for digital communication. In 2000 I coordinated a working group in the field of web design and implementation within a multinational consulting company. Later I rediscovered the pleasure of drawing, painting, to write an intimate language with signs.

I dedicated myself to engraving and began to experiment with the various techniques in a very cosmopolitan artistic typography in Milan, the fulcrum of fervent exchanges, opinions and fun.

 

From 2017 I am collaborating with a theatre company, designing posters for several  Art’s Commedy festivals. I participate in a Civil Theatre workshop that allows me to learn another instrument of expression.

 

Currently I produce paintings of handmade small and large formats on paper, using nib ink, which sometimes underlines and other erases, builds a flow of visual writing that conveys the small in the big and vice versa. Various projects are in progress for personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

Awards

1990 third prize for graphic design for the poster of the 990 ° Valle d'Aosta craft fair " Foire de Saint Ours ."

 

1993 For Armando Testa MilanoMonograph international 1st Prize graphics New York festival , International Print Media Competition.

 

 2000 Creates an interactive multimedia game for Cisco Systems, Ciscoland "

Journey to the discovery of networks" that wins Premio Mario Bellavista

" Targa Oro 2000 for the Advertising Communication "

Art

2008 installation " Nest books " at an antiquarian bookshop in Orta San Giulio .

 

2009 he exhibited in the space " Il ciliegio" Portraits .

 

2009 he exhibited at the Library " La Cicala " Merate , Portraits .

 

2009 he won the prize for best literary blog of the year award

 

2010 he participated in a group show at Gallery Cardano of Pavia

 

2010 he collaborates for Edizioni Pulcino Elefante for a tribute to GB Bodoni

 

2011 he exhibited at the local " Le Scimmie" of Mlano , Portraits of the waterway .

 

2011 the story is published art book " Lie Detector " , edited by Daniele Upiglio where his story is played by six artists . Presented at the Steam Factory from DOCVA in Milan and Venice from the foundation Bevilacqua .

 

2013 he participates in a demonstration of the House of Poetry in Milan .

 

2013 "Lomellina on my mind"

exposes a long canvas of 20 meters x 40 cm depicting the landscapes of Lombard lomellina Celpenchio -Milan

 

2014 Cassero -Castel San Pietro Terme

participates in a group exhibition

 

2015 "Un-defined borders" Officina Coviello Milan

 

2016 "Un-defined borders" Lab Store L.UN.A. Bologna

 

2016 "Un-defined borders" Castel San Pietro Terme (BO)

 

2016" Spazio Officina, Chiasso (Svizzera)

Donazioni#1

Percorsi della creatività dal novecento al nuovo millennio

 

2016" Polimorfismo geografico Spazio b Palazzo Sanseverino Vigevano

 

2020

CHIPPENDALE STUDIO

 

Un progetto multimediale aperto che indaga la forma della semisfera cava come struttura simbolica primaria della vita umana a livello biologico, cosmologico, sociologico e storico.

 

2022

"Contorni" Baraldi Bologna

 

2023

"Artisti di passaggio" Spaziob Vigevano

"Frutti proibiti" Officina Coviello Milano

 

 

 

Graphic design

Collaboration:

 

G&R Associati

 

Teatro alla Scala di Milano

 

Armando Testa

 

Studio Baccari

 

GB progetti

 

L’Uomo Vogue

 

Dove

 

Publicom

 

Max

 

Qui Touring

 

Airone

 

Insieme

 

Psychologies

 

Dearstep- Cap Gemini & Ernst Young

 

Mediabox srl

 

L.UN.A. Libera Università delle Arti

 

Lab Store

 

Centro Ricerche Luna

 

Coop

 

Creative Crew

 

Mondadori educational

 

Casa18

 

Fraternal Compagnia

 

Edihouse

 

Combo coop.