Says Vincenzo: Everything changes, through space and time. The cities we live in are a constantly mutating organism stratified during the centuries. Rome, in particular, reveals the traces of its changes: the first defensive walls establishig an impassable limit nowadays go across the main railway station of the city, a...
Santolo Felaco: Here, Death Will Come Tomorrow
Rome reminds me of a man who lives by exhibiting to travellers his grandmother’s corpse - J.Joyce Rome, city of the spiritual and political power, art city and broken dreams. The capital is living a complex historical period, hostage to misrule and corruption. It has built up a debt of...
Vintage Photochroms of Rome c. 1890
Photochrom, also called the Aäc process, is a process for producing colorized images from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography, a broader term that refers to color lithography in general. Rome is the capital of...
Xiaoyi Chen: The Inadequacy of Language
Matèria is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of work by Xiaoyi Chen opening Thursday May 5, 2016. The exhibition, entitled The Inadequacy of Language features the series ‘Koan’ and previews a selection of images from Chen’s ongoing series ‘An Infinitesimal Wink’. Xiaoyi Chen’s practice is tied to a natural,...