bluebee magazine - volume 2

Gazebo - 2019 - Acrylic, oil, soft pastel and oil bar on cotton canvas

Gazebo

Matteo Fieno

Matteo Fieno

Langhe, Italy

Disillusioned by consumer society and the rush of technological changes, Matteo returns to the values of the past by focusing on the simple beauty of the individual. Postures, variant colours and altered proportions are the means by which he emphasises the

identity of his female personage and provokes the feeling of having lived a similar situation.

This woman says to us, ‘Today, on a warm midsummer afternoon, I fell asleep in the shade of the gazebo.

At the “piedi del monte”, the scent of mulberries, the heat that makes me tired, the singing of crickets and cicadas create a dreamlike and at the same time bucolic atmosphere ...’