Gabriele Di Matteo: L'Enigma del cieco
The Gallery Apart is proud to host Gabriele Di Matteo鈥檚 solo exhibit, in collaboration with the Wizard Gallery Milano, to celebrate the start of the 2024/25 exhibit season. Featured in leading European public and private art collections, Di Matteo returns to Rome shortly after his noteworthy presence at MAXXI 鈥� the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, with the Fuori tutto exhibition held between June 2023 and March 2024.
The Blind Puzzle is the title conceived by the artist, in full continuity with his decades-long research on the theme of the image in all its expressions, from creation to fruition, from its conveyance to the attribution of meaning, and therefore also its absence due to the impossibility or to the unwillingness to see. It is no coincidence that a key role in Di Matteo鈥檚 thought and poetics (as well as the subject of his famous series of repeated portraits of the poet) is played by Jorge Luis Borges, who became blind without this preventing him from carrying out his work, thus embodying the figure of the philosopher who yearns for blindness to be able to see with his inner gaze. His first series of works from the Blind Puzzles cycle (2023) feature grey painted tiles that represent an epic effort to reach the final monochrome hue, which recalls the early works in the history of art that marked the transition to the absence of the image.
The Gallery Apart is proud to host Gabriele Di Matteo鈥檚 solo exhibit, in collaboration with the Wizard Gallery Milano, to celebrate the start of the 2024/25 exhibit season. Featured in leading European public and private art collections, Di Matteo returns to Rome shortly after his noteworthy presence at MAXXI 鈥� the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, with the Fuori tutto exhibition held between June 2023 and March 2024.
The Blind Puzzle is the title conceived by the artist, in full continuity with his decades-long research on the theme of the image in all its expressions, from creation to fruition, from its conveyance to the attribution of meaning, and therefore also its absence due to the impossibility or to the unwillingness to see. It is no coincidence that a key role in Di Matteo鈥檚 thought and poetics (as well as the subject of his famous series of repeated portraits of the poet) is played by Jorge Luis Borges, who became blind without this preventing him from carrying out his work, thus embodying the figure of the philosopher who yearns for blindness to be able to see with his inner gaze. His first series of works from the Blind Puzzles cycle (2023) feature grey painted tiles that represent an epic effort to reach the final monochrome hue, which recalls the early works in the history of art that marked the transition to the absence of the image.
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