Matteo Paolantonio (Manfredonia, 1970) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and later perfected himself with the fresco technique. From 1993 to 2004 he held painting courses for the Figurative Arts Laboratory of the Municipality of Montecatini Terme and collaborated with the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence coordinating seminars dedicated to the Masters of the twentieth century at the Modern Art Gallery of Palazzo Pitti. Since 2013 he has held the chair of Painting Disciplines at the Liceo Artistico di Montevarchi. He exhibits in various exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He is present in several art catalogs.
“..The artist has felt the preponderant call of the landscape in the last twenty years; first rendered in the formal and chromatic fidelity of its elements, then more and more freely in a synthesis that the use of the spatula, working on the softness of the material, has made gradually more suggestive. The landscape that takes shape on his canvases has neglected precise objective recognisability over time. ..the artist tends more than in the past to interpret the sensations offered to him by reality, replacing them with inventions that diverge from it. The compositions performed in oil, acrylic or mixed media expand, especially on large canvases, in solemn scenographies, in imaginative visions that burn in ranges of vivid colors. represented in this way becomes his subject and his only. ”
(Marco Moretti, critical note on the catalog ‘Between nature and synthesis’ – Switzerland – September 2017)