2020 Matteo Gastel

Matteo Gastel was born in Milan in 1978.

After years of training and studies in 2001 he became assistant to his uncle Giovanni Gastel. In 2002 he signed the first catalogue and the first advertising campaign. In the Bytre space is set up his first exhibition "my Milan", a city in black and white, inspired by his great-uncle director Luchino Visconti, who decided to shoot "Rocco and his brothers" in b/w film for the better... make the Milanese atmosphere. In 2003 he exhibited at the Executive "New Zeland, between dreamy and surreal", a selection of contrasts between nature and human evolution.

In the same year the publications of the first editorial services for Italian and foreign magazines. It will be in 2006, however, with the move to New York, that the artist will find his true inspiration and dimension by producing photo shoots for catalogues and campaigns advertising in the world of fashion, cosmetics, luxury and jewellery for customers such as Ralph Lauren, Tod's, Superga, Mr & Mrs, Collistar, Diego Dalla Palma, Brosway, Samsung, Sabelt, Wally Yacht and realizing editorial services for magazines such as L'Uomo Vogue, Glamour, L'Officiel Italia, Elle, Friend, Joy, Capital, Maxim, Man and 25Ans. The city with a thousand faces, with its cultural dynamism effervescent, it will help him in capturing those details that turn objects into icons and reveal the true soul of the metropolis and its inhabitants.

In 2009 he exhibited "New York cubed - Memory Process", solo exhibition, presented in the Milanese gallery Glauco Cavaciuti Arte. New York, universe made of signs, noises and sounds, becomes a decomposition and recomposition of images that deliberately ignore the timeline. Photographs that give an iconic flow made of imperfections, dystonia, contradictions chromatic and formal memory. 2009 is also the year of "Instanti di natura", an exhibition curated by Denis Curti, in which he exposes the still life series "Flowers." In 2011 always with the gallery owner Glauco Cavaciuti presents "beautiful Addictions" a series of iconic compositions having for subjects everyday consumer goods that force to a "pleasant addiction." In 2014 begins the personal project "Traits of Dreams", research in the universe automotive without time barriers. The intent is to select to portray details of extraordinary cars by design, with the goal of pushing them to the extreme and getting abstract paintings.

For the Expo 2015 project he created "Milan, the shiny dark side" a series of subjects that portray classic Milanese architecture interpenetrated by sharp lines and modern of the new skyscrapers: Matteo tells with superimpositions now typically his own, the urban developments undertaken precisely for the great universal exhibition of milan. He currently lives and works between Milan and Los Angeles.