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United States, b. 1971

Tony Matelli United States, b. 1971

Tony Matelli
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Tony Matelli, (Made to order) Arrangement (14), 2022
Tony Matelli, (Made to order) Arrangement (14), 2022
Tony Matelli, (Made to order) Arrangement (14), 2022
Tony Matelli, (Made to order) Arrangement (14), 2022

Tony Matelli United States, b. 1971

(Made to order) Arrangement (14), 2022
painted bronze, stainless steel, galvanized steel, enamel
unique
50.8 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm
20 x 18 x 18 in
Pedestal dimensions: 38 x 16 x 16 in
Copyright of Tony Matelli Studio

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ), currently selected., currently selected., currently selected. Tony Matelli, Yesterday 56, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Tony Matelli, Yesterday 56, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Tony Matelli, Yesterday 56, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Tony Matelli, Yesterday 56, 2019
Matelli’s perspectival reorientations of objects and ideas reach their apex in the Arrangement series, where commonplace bouquets of flowers are upended and reified into miraculous and meticulously constructed sculptures. These...
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Matelli’s perspectival reorientations of objects and ideas reach their apex in the Arrangement series, where commonplace bouquets of flowers are upended and reified into miraculous and meticulously constructed sculptures. These works - comprising kaleidoscopic Tulips, delicate rubberband-bound Lilies, potted Orchids, and vibrant Anthurium - have been transformed into traditional cast bronze and exquisitely painted. The works, often resting upended upon a single petal, bear no load from their gravitational sublimation; almost as images or ideas, these sculptures are reinstated upon the pedestal as if the laws of nature containing them were intact—yet inverted—around them. The works recall the well known story “Funes, the Memorious” by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, where upon a fall from a horse the young Funes can suddenly and perfectly recall any and every detail of his life and surroundings, no matter how insignificant or minute: I remember him (I have no right to utter this sacred verb, only one man on earth had that right and he is dead) with a dark passion flower in his hand, seeing it as no one has ever seen it, though he might look at it from the twilight of dawn till that of evening, a whole lifetime. Funes extraordinary memory renders even the most unnoticed details of objects indistinguishable from the most important, and in his retellings, the details of life are magnified, reimagined, and transformed. Matelli’s Arrangements are likewise an inversion and representaion of the familiar, rendering them newly strange and extraordinary in their incredible material dexterity, beauty and exactitude.
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