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a cura di Leda Lunghi

Testo di Laura Bossi

Matteo Cirenei

Illusioni fotografiche di realtà architettoniche

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Specchi inesistentidi Leda Lunghi

Gli scatti di Matteo Cirenei sono pensieri in un limbo architettonico, trasformazioni diuna forma in un’estetica armoniosa e pura, quella che nasce dietro l’obiettivo il cuiarchetipo ha origine dall’inconscio dell’artista che rivive l’architettura guardandola. Un amore vissuto intensamente ma mai realmente ricambiato, se non attraverso l’obiettivo,che cattura immagini di una realtà metafisica; malinconici vuoti colmati dal giocoarchitettonico, le opere dell’artista sono una rincorsa interiore, una sfida incompiutacon l’architettura. Matteo Cirenei con la sua fotografia ci presenta intrecci poetici d’architettura,parallelismi, incontri di fenomenologie, che un lontano sguardo rivolto verso l’altoriesce a catturare. Gli scatti dell’artista avvengono in quell’atmosfera rarefatta che De Chirico, amavaappellare, rifacendosi a Nietzsche, come Stimmung: “Stimmung (uso questa parolatedesca molto efficace che si potrebbe in italiano tradurre con la parola: atmosferamorale), si basa, dico, sulla Stimmung del pomeriggio d’autunno, quando il cielo èchiaro e le ombre sono più lunghe che d’estate, poiché il sole comincia ad essere piùbasso” De Chirico spiega così tramite il suo legame con Nietzsche, il concetto diStimmung e di conseguenza la genesi di una serie di opere fondamentali quali Piazzed’Italia, illustrando l’attesa per delineare le lunghe prospettive degli edifici cheappaiono specchiarsi nelle ombre da loro stesse descritte; inequivocabile il richiamo adAldo Rossi, alla cui architettura tanto neorazionalista quanto onirica il fotografo dedica unaserie di scatti, in cui il fruitore è in grado di carpire ombre riflesse, che si rincorrono, sicatturano come in una danza teatrale. L’artista nelle sue fotografie coglie una molteplicità di armonie, sinfonie, forme, di pienie di vuoti, di oscurità riflesse e ricercate con la pazienza di chi sente la nobiltà dell’imponenza e ne cattura una minima parte, quella che trasmette talvolta la dolce serenità,talvolta la grandiosità. Sono giochi quelli che Matteo Cirenei ci presenta, tramearchitettoniche, molteplicità e metamorfosi, che ricordano le opere di Escher. Realtà di specchi inesistenti, si rinnovano in ogni opera, in un variare diverso di esseri, diforme, di geometrie irriconoscibili alla vista. Platone sosteneva che l’arte è l’ingannodella realtà ed è così che appaiono le fotografie dell’artista, come inganni d’architettura,esse si percepiscono nei loro particolari ma sfuggono nel loro complesso.

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Vacue apparenze, spazi prospettici e silenziosi, armoniose geometrie che nessuno avevamai osservato, si svelano attraverso l’occhio di Cirenei che meticolosamente le catturaed ecco apparire la rara bellezza fino ad allora celata, incanto di un’amante tanto agognata,osservata da lontano, tramite l’obiettivo: amore platonico, rarefatto intervallo d’amore.Tramite il suo obiettivo l’artista rende eterno ciò che non lo è, l’architettura, nella qualeegli coglie la sua essenza più fragile, l’arte. Incomprensibile e intangibile allo sguardosuperficiale, Cirenei la porta in primo piano con giochi incantati di luci, che assumonoprofondità, forme astratte in un linguaggio estetico.

Le sue fotografie sono frammenti musicali che appaiono e scompaiono, effetti visivi,emozioni che nascono su una stessa nota ma poi variando vanno a comporre sonatediverse e mentre le emozioni maturano in inconsci differenti, le ombre e gli scherzi diluce si assoggettano al riflesso o al vuoto. Come un musicista Cirenei riesce ad utilizzaree reinterpretare lo stesso elemento, nel gioco di composizione e scomposizione, i chiaroscuri sono i toni piani e forti di un dramma musicale, realista e sognatore che sireinterpreta tra arte e architettura descrivendo l’impeto di una sarabanda a cui siaccompagna poi la leggerezza del divenire e sarà «encore, et pour toujours..!.»Forme astratte, colte da uno sguardo che percepisce contrasti, “non un’immagine giusta,ma giusto un’ immagine” diceva Godard, Cirenei riesce a trasmettere la verità dellafotografia con il suo sguardo nel quale riecheggiano sia la realtà illusoria, sia laperfezione e l’essenza della bellezza descritta dai Greci. Lontani vuoti minimalisti catturano l’occhio dell’artista, il quale tra armonia eproporzione punta a trasformare l’architettura in ritmi di luce; dichiarava Pitagora, trabellezza e musica vi sono i rapporti matematici, da qui il legame con la proporzione eil collegamento tra arte e architettura. In fondo i pitagorici furono realmente i primi adare la vera definizione di bellezza, soddisfacendo la curiosità ultima degli uomini dasempre attratti dalle forme simmetriche e asimmetriche, dal contrasto e dall’ordine,quindi dai concetti di armonia e simmetria, i quali conducono, sempre attraverso glistudi pitagorici, alla bellezza come proporzione. Su queste basi possiamo concepire lapoetica di Cirenei, la visione della prospettiva, il punto di vista, l’abilità di coglierescorci regalando l’indefinito, il particolare, ricercato talmente in profondità da perdere

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di vista il contesto architettonico. L’osservatore può notare questa meticolosa ricercatezzadel fascino della prospettiva, dell’incalzare delle sagome indistinte, le quali assumonoun ruolo predominante in immagini come quella rappresentata ne L’Institut du mondeArabe di Jean Nouvel, in cui l’artista fotografa tutta la forza e lo slancio dell’architetturain un bilanciamento speculare e simmetrico colto nell’edificio, mentre il suo sguardo inCiudad de Las Artes y Las Ciencias di Santiago Calatrava percepisce la delicatezza concui si alternano i contrasti di luce ed ombra, tanto da apparire ritagli o trame architet-toniche. Fotografando poi, il Complesso Monte Amiata di Aldo Rossi e Carlo Aymoninol’artista racconterà con il suo obiettivo, armoniose prospettive che divengono primipiani, alternanze di elementi opposti, ombreggiati e poetici.

L’ambiguità è una grande forza attrattiva per Matteo Cirenei, egli infatti, cerca semprequel punto in cui convergono le mutevoli e possibili possibilità estetiche offerte dall’architettura. Le forme scelte da Cirenei, abbiamo visto, sono associazioni di luci,intrecci geometrici, sovrapposizioni, raffinatezze e ricercatezze; tramite la suafotografia, in cui i principali soggetti sono urbani, l’artista rilegge gli edifici tramite unlinguaggio personale, raccontando non solo l’estetica, ma anche la poetica solitaria diluoghi già vissuti e ritrovati in momenti inaspettati. Recita Baudelaire ne L’Invitationau voyage “i soli umidi di quei torbidi cieli racchiudono per il mio spirito gli incanticosì misteriosi dei tuoi occhi traditori quando brillano di lacrime!”, è in questa fraseche ritroviamo nuovamente la poetica del tempo utopico di un artista che è realmentetale, nella sua solitudine, capace di respirare e concepire anche l’essenza onirica diverità concrete.

Leda Lunghi

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Nonexistent mirrorsBy Leda Lunghi

Matteo Cirenei’s shots are thoughts in an architectural limbo, transformations of a shapeinto harmonious and pure aesthetics, one that starts off behind a camera whose archetypesoriginate from the artist’s subconscious re-experiencing architecture by looking at it.A devotion which he lives intensely but is never really returned, unless through thecamera which captures the images of a metaphysical state; gloomy emptiness filled bythe architectural game, the artist’s works are an interior chase, an incomplete challengewith architecture. With his photography, Matteo Cirenei presents poetic intertwinings of architectures,parallelisms, meeting of phenomenologies, which a long-distance upward glancemanages capturing. The artist’s shots occur in the rarefied atmosphere which De Chirico loved calling -quoting Nietzsche - Stimmung. “Stimmung (I am using this very effective German wordwhich in Italian might be translated with “moral atmosphere”) it’s based, as I said onthe Stimmung of Autumn afternoons, when the sky is clear and shadows are longer thanduring the summer, because the sun is lower”. Through his relationship with Nietzsche,De Chirico thus explains the concept of Stimmung and, consequently, the birth of aseries of fundamental artworks such as Piazze d’Italia, illustrating the wait to describethe long perspectives of the buildings which look as if reflecting into the shadows theygenerate; unmistakable reference to Aldo Rossi’s neo-rationalist yet also dreamlikearchitecture, object of the photographer’s dedication of a series of shots where the audiencecan understand the reflected shadows, shadows chasing each other and seizing oneanother as in a theatrical dance. In his photographs, the artist captures a series ofconcordances, symphonies, shapes, of filled and empty spaces, of reflected darknesssought for with patience by those who feel the nobility of the impressiveness, capturingjust a small part, the one that conveys sweet tranquillity at times, sometimes magnificenceat others. The ones Matteo Cirenei presents, are games, architectural wefts, variety andmetamorphosis which remind of Escher’s artworks. Realty of nonexistent mirrors,renewed in every art work, in a different change of beings, of shapes of unrecognisablegeometries for the human eye. Plato said art deceits reality, and this is how the artist’sphotographs appear, like architecture’s deceptions, they can be perceived in theirdetails but they escape in their overall appearance.

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Empty appearances, perspectives and silent spaces, harmonious geometries revealedthrough Cirenei’s eye who meticulously captures them, and the rare beauty, hidden upto then, is then revealed, enchantment of a much desired lover, observed from afarthrough the camera: platonic love, rarefied love interval. With his camera, the artistgives eternity to what isn’t, to architecture, through which he can capture the most fragileessence, art. Incomprehensible and intangible to the superficial look, Cirenei takes itin the forefront with enchanted games of light which take on deepness and abstractshapes in an aesthetic language.

His photographs are fragments of music which appear and disappear, visual effects andemotions born from a single note which then vary and compose different sonatas, whileemotions mature in different subconscious, shadows and games of light submit to reflectionsor to emptiness. Like a musician, Cirenei manages using and re-interpreting the sameelement in a game of composition and de-composition, the chiaroscuros are the soft andstrong tones of a musical drama, realist and dreamer reinterpreting himself between artand architecture, describing the enthusiasm of a sarabande which is then accompaniedby the lightness of the becoming and will be «encore, et pour toujours..!.»Abstract forms, captured by a glance which perceives contrasts, “ not a just image butjust an image” said Godard, Cirenei manages transmitting the truth of photography withhis glance, where illusionary reality, perfection and the essence of beauty described bythe Greeks resound. Far away minimalist emptiness captures the artist’s eye, he aims at transforming archi-tecture in rhythms of light amid harmony and proportions. Pythagoras said there ismathematics between beauty and music, this is the origin of the relationship withproportions and the connection between art and architecture. After all, Pythagoras’followers have really been the first to give the real definition of beauty, satisfying thelast curiosity of man, always attracted by symmetric and asymmetric shapes, bycontrasts and order, therefore by the concepts of harmony and symmetry which lead,always through Pythagoras’ studies, to beauty as proportion. These are the basis overwhich we can conceive Cirenei’s poetry, the vision of perspective, the point of view, theability to capture glimpses living the undefined, the detail, sought for in such deepness

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that the architectural context is lost. Observers can notice this meticulous research forthe appeal of perspectives, of the imminence of indistinct profiles, assuming a predominantrole in images like those represented in Jean Nouvel’s Institut du monde Arabe, wherethe artist photographs all the strength and impetus of architecture in a specular andsymmetric balance captured in the building, while his glance of Santiago Calatrava’sCiudad de Las Artes y Las Ciencias perceives the delicacy with which contrasts of lightsand shades alternate, in so much that they appear architectural cut-outs or weaves.By photographing later on Aldo Rossi’s and Carlo Aymonino’s Complesso Monte Amiata,the artist, through his camera, tells us of harmonious perspectives which become close-ups,rotations of opposed elements, shady and poetic.Ambiguity is a great attractive element for Matteo Cirenei, he indeed always seeks thespot where change and possible aesthetic opportunities offered by architecture converge.Shapes chosen by Cirenei, as we have seen, are associations of lights, geometricintertwining, juxtapositions, sophistications and elegance. With his photographs, wherethe main subjects are urban, the artist re-interprets buildings with a personal language,telling not just of aesthetics but also of the lonely poetry of places already lived andrediscovered in unexpected moments. Baudelaire says in the L’Invitation au voyage“the misty suns of those changeable skies have for me the same mysterious charm asyour fickle eyes shining through their tears” and it’s in this phrase we again find thepoetry of the utopian time of an artist who is really such, in his loneliness. Capable ofbreathing and conceiving also the dreamlike essence of tangible truths.

Leda Lunghi

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L’elogio del dettagliodi Laura Bossi

“Perché siamo in grado di ricordare il più piccolo dettaglio che ci è accaduto, ma nonquante volte l’abbiamo detto alla stessa persona” Francesco VI, Duca de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)

Due cose ci uniscono: Matteo Cirenei e io abbiamo frequentato la facoltà di architetturaa Milano negli stessi anni e deciso di non esercitare il mestiere, almeno non in sensotradizionale. Io ho trascorso i cinque anni del Politecnico alla ricerca di un’entità che,negli anni post contestazione, era considerata meno di zero, troppo terreste, priva diqualsiasi appeal politico e di aura intellettuale: ossia, il dettaglio architettonico.

Negli anni successivi, ho invidiato chiunque sapesse schizzare a matita il più banaledei particolari costruttivi: in definitiva, loro possedevano un alfabeto con cui scrivere,una serie di segni che avevano ereditato dai i loro padri. Potevo solo sperare che questisaggi mi illuminassero nel disegno della scossalina o del davanzale. A un certo punto,ho capito che il mestiere non era la mia strada e che avrei potuto impegnarmi in un’altrabattaglia: ribaltare il credo “Gli architetti scrivono male”.

“Pensiamo in generale, ma viviamo nei dettagli”Alfred North Whitehead, matematico e filosofo inglese (1861 – 1947)

Dopo diversi anni di onorato combattimento sul campo, sono arrivata a una mia conclusione:gli architetti, più che scrivere male, non vogliono farsi capire. Preferiscono avvolgersiin un mantello teorico, nascondono il fatto che l’architettura si progetta nella mente, mala si costruisce in cantiere, mettendo insieme una sequenza di dettagli architettonici.Sono loro, se ben congeniati, ad assicurare una lunga vita all’edificio.

Con un certo coraggio, Matteo Cirenei dedica al dettaglio il tempo della ricerca.Sottopone i suoi estimatori a un curioso cruciverba: ricostruire da un particolareun’opera di architettura che, mille volte, abbiamo visto in fotografia, ma che se non cifosse un didascalia ad aiutarci non sapremmo davvero riconoscere. In alcuni casi, arrivaa regalare una seconda vita ad architetture, come la Ciudad de Las Artes y Las Ciencias

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di Santiago Calatrava a Valencia, che la prima l’hanno sprecata in un inutile gioco disovrabbondanze. Quasi a suggerire che se l’architetto si fosse fermato lì, a queldettaglio, avrebbe reso un miglior servizio a se stesso e al proprio ego.

“I bugiardi intelligenti rivelano i dettagli, quelli più intelligenti no”. Anonimo

Matteo Cirenei inquadra il dettaglio, lo riproduce in bianco e nero e in questo modo nedetermina la sospensione dai fatti dell’esistenza umana. Lo rende immune allo scorreredegli avvenimenti, all’azione delle persone e alla frenesia della metropoli. Non escludeperò la presenza del tempo che, nel suo lavoro, si manifesta nel senso più vero dellaparola: quello ciclico dello scorrere delle stagioni. I dettagli di Matteo Cirenei sono par-ticelle che rivelano l’alternanza di giorno e notte, le ombre che si allungano e si accor-ciano o il passaggio sopra Milano di un temporale improvviso: raccontano una vita a cuinon facciamo più caso.

Questi edifici, in cui la materia appare come fosse la firma del progettista (le piastrellein ceramica di Gio Ponti, il rivestimento in ceppo della Bocconi di Milano delle GraftonArchitects, la filigrana metallica dell’Institute di Monde Arabe di Parigi di JeanNouvel), sono meridiane solari.

Laura Bossi

Nata a Milano nel 1963, Laura Bossi fa parte della redazione di Domus dal 1998

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A praise to detailsBy Laura Bossi

“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not rememberhow many times we have told it to the same person”.Francis VI, Duke de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

Matteo and I share two things: we both attended Architecture at University in Milanduring the same period and we both decided not to exercise the profession, at least notin the traditional sense. I spent five years at the Polytechnic, searching for an entitywhich in the post-protest period was considered less than nothing, too terrestrial,lacking any political appeal and intellectual aura: i.e. architectural details.

In the years that followed, I envied anyone who could pencil sketch the most ordinaryand common constructive details. They practically possessed an alphabet with whichthey could write a series of signs they inherited from their fathers. I could only hopethese wise men would illuminate me in designing flashings or windowsills. ThenI understood the profession was not my way and I could engage another battle: overturningthe belief that “Architects can’t write”.

“We think in generalities but we live in detail”Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician and Philosopher (1861 – 1947)

After several years of honoured fight on the field, I reached my own conclusion: morethan writing badly, architects don’t want to be understood. They prefer envelopingthemselves in a cloak of theories, they hide the fact architecture is designed in thoughtsbut is built on site, by putting together a sequence of architectural details. These, if welldevised, ensure the building a long life.

With a certain amount of courage, Matteo Cirenei dedicates details the right amount oftime. He subjects his estimators to a strange crossword puzzle: reconstructing anarchitectural artwork from a detail which we have seen a thousand times on aphotograph but that we would really not recognize, unless aided by the caption. Insome cases, he manages giving a second life to architectures which wasted the first one

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in useless overabundance, as with Santiago Calatrava’s Ciudad de Las Artes y LasCiencias in Valencia, almost suggesting that if the architect had stopped there, in thatdetail, he would have returned a better service to himself and his ego.

“Intelligent liars reveal the details, more intelligent ones don’t”. Anonymous

Matteo Cirenei frames details, he reproduces them in black and white and in this waydetermines their interruption from the facts of human existence. This makes themimmune from the passing of events, from the action of people and the frenzy of themetropolis. They do not, however, exclude the presence of time which, in his work,appears in the real sense of the word: the cycle of seasons passing by. Matteo Cirenei’sdetails are particles revealing the alternation of day and night, the shadows stretchingout and shortening or the transit of a sudden thunderstorm above Milan: they tell of alife we don’t pay attention to anymore.

These buildings, where substance appears as if it was the signature of the project manager(Gio Ponti’s ceramic tiles, Grafton Architects’ wood cladding at Milan’s BocconiUniversity, the metal filigree of Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris) aresundials.

Laura Bossi

Born in Milan in 1963, Laura Bossi is part of the editorial staff of Domus since 1998.

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#09030304, Complesso abitativo “Monte Amiata”, Milano, 2009

Carlo Aymonino - Aldo Rossi

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#09030107, Grattacielo per gli uffici dei Servizi Tecnici del Comune, Milano, 2009

Renato Bazzoni, Luigi Fratino, Vittorio Gandolfi, Aldo Putelli

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#07050152, Ciudad de Las Artes y Las Ciencias, Valencia, 2007

Santiago Calatrava

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#09060207, Ampliamento Università Luigi Bocconi, Milano, 2009

Grafton Architects

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#09060209, Ampliamento Università Luigi Bocconi, Milano, 2009

Grafton Architects

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#09070102, Chiesa di San Francesco al Fopponino, Milano, 2009

Gio Ponti

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#08060414, Grattacielo Pirelli, Milano, 2008

Gio Ponti (con Pier Luigi Nervi, Antonio Fornaroli, Alberto Rosselli, Giuseppe Valtolina e Egidio Dell’Orto)

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#08070113, Complesso edilizio per uffici ed abitazioni, Milano, 2008

Luigi Moretti

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#09030501, Complesso abitativo “Monte Amiata”, Milano, 2009

Carlo Aymonino - Aldo Rossi

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#09030503, Complesso abitativo “Monte Amiata”, Milano, 2009

Carlo Aymonino - Aldo Rossi

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#10030102, Casa albergo città universitaria, Milano, 2010

Luigi Moretti

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#07020710, Institut du Monde Arabe, Parigi, 2007

Jean Nouvel

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#92120116, La Grande Arche, Paris La Défense, Parigi, 1992

Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (con Erik Reitzel, Paul Andreu)

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#09100408, Business Park e Leisure Centre, Assago, 2009

Erick van Egeraat

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#09070104, Altra Sede Regione Lombardia, Milano, 2009

Ieoh Ming Pei, Henry N. Cobb, Paolo Caputo, Massimo Giuliani

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Biografia

Matteo Cirenei nasce a Schio nel 1965, vive dal 1967 a Milano, sua città adottiva.Laureatosi in architettura al Politecnico di Milano, collabora con riviste di architettura,arte e design quali Domus, Interni, Ville Giardini e con importanti aziende di moda earredamento.

Esposizioni

p 2009 (insieme a Armen Casnati) “Diaframmi Visuali” Showroom Minotti Cucine, Milano.

p 2008 - 09 “2 edifici milanesi Anni ’50 a confronto” Showroom Galli & Orizzonti, Parigi.

p 2008 “Milano, geometrie d’autore in bianco e nero” Showroom Bredaquaranta, Sesto S. Giovanni.

p 2007 (insieme a F38F) “ Milano, Milano ” Galleria Scoglio di Quarto, Milano.

p 2007 “L’Arte italiana del vivere” Showroom Galli & Orizzonti, Parigi.

c 2007 “Pittura vs Fotografia. Coppie di artisti allo specchio” Wannabee Gallery, Milano.

c 2007 “La Città nell’arte” Wannabee Gallery Milano.

c 2002 “Per parlare di pace non bastano le parole” Galleria L’Affiche, Milano.

2001 Premio internazionale d’arte “Ermanno Casoli”: terzo classificato, Serra San Quirico.

p 2001 in occasione del Salone del Mobile presso il locale “le Biciclette”, Milano.

c 1998 “21 x 21 x 21” casa di produzione Cinematografica Mercurio, Milano e Roma.

c 1997 Galleria Hands di New York, con Maria Mulas e altri sette artisti italiani, Milano e New York.

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Biography

Matteo Cirenei was born in Schio in 1965 and lives in Milan, his city of adoption, since1967. He graduated in Architecture at Milan's Polytechnic and collaborates with severalarchitecture and art & design publications including Domus, Interni, Ville Giardini andwith major fashion and furniture companies.

Exhibitions

p 2009 (with Armen Casnati) “Diaframmi Visuali” Showroom Minotti Cucine, Milan.

p 2008- “2 edifici milanesi Anni ’50 a confronto” [“Comparison between two Milanese ‘50s 2009 buildings”] Showroom Galli & Orizzonti, Paris.

p 2008 “Milano, geometrie d’autore in bianco e nero” [“Milan: black and white artistic geometries"]Showroom Bredaquaranta, Sesto S. Giovanni, Milan.

p 2007 (with F38F ) “Milano, Milano” Scoglio di Quarto Gallery, Milan.

p 2007 “L’Arte italiana del vivere ” [“The art of Italian lifestyle”] .

c 2007 “Pittura vs Fotografia. Coppie di artisti allo specchio” [“Painting vs Photography: artistcouples face to face”] Wannabee Gallery, Milan.

c 2007 “La Città nell’arte” [“City in art”] Wannabee Gallery, Milan.

c 2002 “ Per parlare di pace non bastano le parole” [“Words are not enough to speak of peace”]L’Affiche Gallery, Milan.

2001 Third classified at the Ermanno Casoli Interational Art Award, Serra San Quirico.

p 2001 During Milan's Salone del Mobile Exhibition at bar/restaurant “ le Biciclette”, Milan.

c 1998 “21 x 21 x 21” Mercurio film production company, Milan and Rome.

c 1997 New York Hands Gallery, with Maria Mulas and other seven Italian artists, Milan and New York.

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