IN CONVERSATION WITH EDITOR IN CHIEF ALICEZUCCA

Tony Matelli can be considered as a member of the realist school for his hyper-realistic way of presenting what belongs to the sphere of reality, this is undoubtedly a reductive classification in my opinion, despite his works - albeit loaded with a sense of exception and unusualness compared to what reality allows us to immediately recognize - present themselves as a faithful representation of matter per se, therefore retaining (even in the apparent overturning of reality, in the decontextualization and particularity of their presentation) a high degree of perceptibility and identifiability of something that rightfully lives for us and belongs to the sphere of the possible according to what we can rationally recognize.