Mattia Listowski, born in Paris on February 28, 1987, is a French sculptor, draughtsman and photographer of multiple origins (France, Italy and Poland), from a creative family. He lives and works in Paris and Brussels, and studied at ESAG Penninghen from 2005 to 2008.
Mattia sculpts narrative architectures in the raw material of concrete, characterizing our symbolic relationship to memory, the ruin of ideas; and encapsulates hushed stagings of these magical places with medium-format silver-chamber photographs, crystallizing an equivocal memory on the surface of concrete. In this way, he revolutionizes a temporal paradigm by studying our physical relationship to space, in a narrative that crosses personal history, art history and the history of great civilizations.
His work uses the formal language, techniques, tools and representations of architecture, exploring matter and light. He combines a conceptual approach, industrial know-how and craftsmanship, metaphorically exposing our dual relationship to the world: the invisibility of being in the global mass, at odds with our primordial essence as sensitive individuals.
A romantic dialectic of travel, anthropological and picturesque, in a universe that constantly brings into tension the ephemerality of light (brought about by the notion of events and sensitivity) and the eternity of stone (supported by the notion of memory), confronting us with our own memory, our singular recollections.
Mattia lives and works in Brussels.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 : Reopening, groupshow, Grège Gallery, Bxl
2023 : Vente aux enchères, Maison R&C à l'Hôtel Drouot, Paris
2022 : Salon Nationa(a)l, Maiso de la poste, Bxl
2022 : Symposium of Concrete, Résidence d'artistes
Sziegetmonostor
Hongrie
2022 : Vente aux enchères, Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Bxl
2022 : Proposition d'une synthèse des arts, Group show par Andreina de Witte,Galerie La Chance,Paris
2021 : Vente aux enchères, Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Bxl
2021 : Moderne Art Fair,Spazio Effimero (Stand 242)
Champs-Élysées - Clémenceau
Paris
2021 : Bienvenue Design Fair,Spazio Effimero (Chambre 37)
Hôtel La Louisiane
Paris
2021 : Réminiscence, Solo show, Galerie Shak, Bruxelles
2016 : Introducing Alice et Mattia,Solo show avec Alice Roux, Galerie Sator, Paris
2013 : Avez-vous dans les yeux ce qui manque aux paysages, Solo show avec Alice Roux et Eric Michel, 19 Paul Fort, Paris
PRICES
2022 : Le Geste d'Or, Prix du Geste d'Argent
Création, modèle et représentation
Fédération Française du Bâtiment, Paris