Surreal Portrait Photography by Giuseppe Mastromatteos
Born in Italy and based in New York, Giuseppe Mastromatteo became a major player in the advertising world as a creative director for Euro RSCG New York. On of his latest project “Indepensense” he brings surrealism back to life. This series could be collages, but take advantage of the subtlety of digital technology to reproduce humanity in impossible and illusory dimensions like hands have eyes, faces are ripped, human anatomy is surgically rearranged with no blood flowing in these absurd images. Got curious? We had are featuring below an interview with the author of this art series, Giuseppe, and we invite everyone to check more below.
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Born in Italy and based in New York, Giuseppe Mastromatteo became a major player in the advertising world as a creative director for Euro RSCG New York. On of his latest project “Indepensense” he brings surrealism back to life. This series could be collages, but take advantage of the subtlety of digital technology to reproduce humanity in impossible and illusory dimensions like hands have eyes, faces are ripped, human anatomy is surgically rearranged with no blood flowing in these absurd images. Got curious? We had are featuring below an interview with the author of this art series, Giuseppe, and we invite everyone to check more below.
I've stared creating pictures in 2004 and was just an experiment, something for me. A self expression. Then, I met my mentor Giovanni Pelloso a great curator in Milan, he introduced my work to my actual gallerist in Milan, Giancarlo Pedrazzini. It was all spontaneous and with no expeditions, but it starts.
Since then I've change a lot, as a person, as an artist too. The last series I did is 'Indepensense'. Sense with no barriere, human sense with no obstacle. “Indepensense” portrait series bring poetic Surrealism back to life. This series could be collages, but take advantage of the subtlety of digital technology to reproduce humanity in impossible and illusory dimensions. Ripped faces, eyes and ears which run through hands, are the centre of an imaginary truth that draws inspiration from the visions of Magritte and Man Ray to land inside a new visual synthesis with stylistic patterns representing the most contemporary photography of our time, in a continuous overlapping of visual languages that live in the world of advertising and genuine research.
No expression exists in these faces, there is no tension, but rather a sense of timelessness that leaves us open to reflect about the uncertainty of this third millennium. The observer’s eye is immediately attracted by the extravagance of these creatures, which at the same time produces a true sense of discomfort and uneasiness.
What’s your creative process like?
It's about preparing everything on paper, it all start from sketches, rough ideas, but after this random process, everything is well prepared on paper with computers. They are like layouts. I bring those on the set, and use them as reference, creative direction. But I give myself freedom to create and invent something inexpected on the shooting.
Where do you find inspiration and why you like photography?
Inspiration comes from everything. I like studying other photographers, I like going to exibitions, meeting people, curators. I like spending my time surfing on the web, saving stuff I like. I like buying magazines, lot of magazines. Everything is good for me to find inspiration. Comes from art and comes from life in general.
To be honest never stop thinking about new stuff...
What are some tips you could give to people that really like your work?
No I like to give open mind and open criteria to understand my work. I like people stop during an art fair and asking about my work. That's for me like a gift.
Can you name one great photographer that inspires you with his works and why?
No one in particular and some of them. Don't know, I like photographer that are very far from me, like Rankin, LaChapelle, Martin Schoeller, Annie Leibovitz.
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Thanks for your nice words. I really appreciate your sincerity and your clarity in explain your stile.
We would like to wish you keep good luck with in your advertising carrer but also in your personal artistic photography scene. Keep us updated with your latest projects.
Mr. Giuseppe Mastromatteos, thanks for your help in order to create this amazing surrealistic essay on surrealism art. We really appreciate your sincerity and your clarity in explain your stile. We would like to wish you keep good luck with in your advertising carrer but also in your personal artistic photography scene. Keep us updated with your latest projects.
