Mateo Maté - Restricted Area e Paisaje Uniformado 5 / 13
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Mateo Maté presents us his artworks "Paisaje Uniformado 5/13 and Restricted Area".
"In “Paisaje Uniformado” I’m trying to demonstrate a theory by trial and error: trying to do an act of justice, report a quiet theft. I try to return to the art what the war stole from it. The military camouflage would not exist without the discovering and the developing of a language and plastic iconography. These artists undress all the natural elements of the landscape from its basic form and reinterpret as a sign of colors and spots, as the eye retina see it. From now on, demonstrating of how an human and harmless invention could be used perversely, other artists gave these codes to the army to develop the uniforms as we know. With the texture of the different uniforms I’m trying to recompose the iconographic artworks to describe with the paints every texture, vegetation and climate phenomenon that could define a landscape. There is some army that will give us raw material, as it is a color tubing. In the artwork “Restricted Area” I try to show the total militarization of the state where we daily live and, in this case, I want to demonstrate that this happen even in a museum. It’s not only the society that is militarized but also the unexpected places, like our house and the centre of contemporary art. This become, often, a militarized space and the chains and boundaries that we use every day to control and direct the flow of the people are organized as a frontier and guardian, with the uniform as a soldier, use the security cameras to control the moving of the people."
"In “Paisaje Uniformado” I’m trying to demonstrate a theory by trial and error: trying to do an act of justice, report a quiet theft. I try to return to the art what the war stole from it. The military camouflage would not exist without the discovering and the developing of a language and plastic iconography. These artists undress all the natural elements of the landscape from its basic form and reinterpret as a sign of colors and spots, as the eye retina see it. From now on, demonstrating of how an human and harmless invention could be used perversely, other artists gave these codes to the army to develop the uniforms as we know. With the texture of the different uniforms I’m trying to recompose the iconographic artworks to describe with the paints every texture, vegetation and climate phenomenon that could define a landscape. There is some army that will give us raw material, as it is a color tubing. In the artwork “Restricted Area” I try to show the total militarization of the state where we daily live and, in this case, I want to demonstrate that this happen even in a museum. It’s not only the society that is militarized but also the unexpected places, like our house and the centre of contemporary art. This become, often, a militarized space and the chains and boundaries that we use every day to control and direct the flow of the people are organized as a frontier and guardian, with the uniform as a soldier, use the security cameras to control the moving of the people."
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