Matteo C. Farkas began his personal research about techniques and materials in the field of drawing. At he beginning he focused himself on the awareness that the innumerable materials, elements and techniques, traditionally used in he artistic world (acrylics, oil colours, watercolours, china ink, synthetic paint etc.), could offer a result of tonality and pigment deeply different to each other. His studies took him to create a sort of mix, he called “puzzle-art”, as all the different material he used, rationally arranged, gave birth to a unique artwork, with a proper dominant logic. He used to play with the chemical characteristics of the material to dominate them and to give a magical effect to the canvas.
Later Farkas expanded his studies on the field of sculptures. The works he's presenting in Berlin are part of the series “The future Zone”. In his research for material, the artist is looking for the ones who stimulate the emotional and sensory impact on the spectator, dealing with current and future matters like robotics and the robots. But he does it with the objects of the past, realizing his robots through the use of ancient material, according to the theory that “without the past there would not exist anything in the future”.
In the last collection Farkas uses materials connected to his mother land , the Tuscany, exactly where the red wine Chianti is produced. Therefore primarily iron agricultural tools such as scissors, hoes, sickles, today almost vanished are applied. Then he turns his attention to the mechanical parts of devices and machines, characterizing the industrial age and that are fallen today in disuse, like pieces of trucks, objects that are substituted, becoming the so-called “material for recycling”, which is perfectly according to the theme of the artist.
The pieces of the sculptures are carefully selected on a morphological basis. There is any preventive project: Farkas works intuitively, collocating the different parts where he thinks they should be, according to the position and the contest.
He gives new life to the waste products and to the object destined to fall into the oblivion. |
