MATT PHILLIPS | La linea invisibile

When Matt Phillips came to Italy for the first time he decided to name his solo exhibition "Piano Piano", paying homage to the language of the poets, and recalling the rhythm of classical musical compositions, which from the pianissimo goes on growing through a creative process that very closely recalls his own.

Matt Phillips' painting is in fact a slow one, made up of stratifications and thought, capable of leaving ample space for the imagination. The absolute protagonists are the forms, borrowed from nature or architecture, and repeated according to chromatic modules of different sizes, on canvas or paper, in search of a perfect synthesis.

A particular constant runs through all his works: it is the absence of contour lines. The artist limits himself to tracing a non-confinition, preparing the pictorial surface with a white background, and letting every field of colour happen to the other according to combinations that are never random.

With this operation Matt Phillips explores the concept of limit, abolishing its tangibility and allowing the discipline of composition to dictate its balance.

Once again, harmony is the key concept that unites the rooms of Palazzo Conti Martini with the works of contemporary art chosen for the exhibition Terra, in this case playing on abstraction and narration evoked by the titles of the works.

Camilla Nacci