Giuseppe Mastromatteo 'Indepensense' at Emmanuel Fremin Gallery

The work of Italian artist and Creative Director Euro RSCG New York Giuseppe Mastromatteo will be shown at New York’s Emmanuel Fremin Gallery in the month of May. 

Art News reports that this is the first time that Mastromatteo’s surrealistic digital photographs on the five senses ‘Indepensense’ are in America, arriving in conjunction with New York’s Affordable Art Fair, which runs May 5-8, 2011.

Like fellow Itaian artist Giovanni Bortolani, Giuseppe Mastromatteo’s surrealism takes advantage of the subtlety of digital technology to reproduce humanity in impossible and illusory dimensions. Faces are ripped; hands have eyes; human anatomy is surgically rearranged with no blood flowing in these absurd images.

Magritte and Man Ray evolve in a new digital synthesis that speaks volumes in its surgical precision.

Transfigured bodies, pierced and lacerated do not show any form of violence, but instead pose solemnly in front of the photographer’s lens, beyond any suffering. No expression exists in these faces, there is no tension, but rather a sense of timelessness that leaves us open to reflect about the uncertainty of this third millennium. The observer’s eye is immediately attracted by the extravagance of these creatures, which at the same time produces a true sense of discomfort and uneasiness. Mastromatteo intervenes in the interior sense of beauty. The models he chooses for his images bring to the stage classic canons of harmony and equilibrium creating a complex dialectict between fascination and repulsion. via Emmanuel Fremin Gallery

More interesting images of Giuseppe Mastromatteo’s art on exhibit are on this link.