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During the Casa Alberto Heredia residency programme, I propose to delve into a line of research related to the heritage present in the latest productions of the Museo Moderno. The project is in its preliminary stage, which involves the exploration and construction of an archive of images of the backs of paintings, focusing on the discovery and observation of new paintings, sketches, drawings, messages, dedications and inscriptions in that hidden, forbidden area: the back of an artwork.
Some time ago I began to gather material by consulting the displayed collections, reserves and technical areas of different museums in the country and abroad. In this same vein, I will work together with the areas of Heritage and Conservation of the Museo Moderno to investigate the collection in depth, trying to discover interesting and significant material on the backs of artworks.
Through my research, I am interested in investigating and formulating hypotheses regarding the fate of images that were pushed aside and remain excluded, the reasons why one image was favoured over another…. I am interested in testing possible narratives to connect what is represented on the front and the back of an artwork.
The different conceptual, formal and material investigations that I will carry out will result in a new body of work whose materiality and form will be experimented with in the workshop.
The programme of work in this residency will include a fieldwork stage and another stage of creative enquiry, which will take place in the studio, processing the information gathered, experimenting with it and evaluating the ways of materialising and exhibiting the project.
Mariana de Matteis was born in Villaguay, Entre Ríos Province, in 1984.
She is an artist and museum worker. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and has been trained by Rafael Cippolini, Eva Grinstein, Pablo Siquier, Roberto Echen and Silvia Gurfein. She has taken part in residencies at Hangar, Barcelona (2014); the URRA residency, CABA (2015), and the Laboratorio Federal, Museo Sívori, CABA (2021).
She has obtained the Oxenford Grant (2023), and grants from different institutions such as the Goethe Institut, the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, the Fundación Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe and the Nuevo Banco de Entre Ríos.
She won the Second Acquisition Prize at the XV Premio de Pintura Banco Central (2022), the First Acquisition Prize UADE (2020), the First Mention in the XXII Klemm Prize (2018), Incentive Award at the Salón de Mayo, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes ‘Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez’, Santa Fe (2022, 2019, 2018 and 2016), and the Young Artist Award 2014 Fundación Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe. She was a finalist for the following awards: Premio Braque (2023), Premio Fortabat (2023), Premio 8M, CCK (2021), Azcuy (2020), Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales (2018), Itaú (2015 and 2018) and Medifé (2015). She received an honourable mention for the Premio Lucio Fontana (2016) and participated in Currículum cero, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires (2008).
She has had solo and group exhibitions in different museums and cultural spaces, including the Universidad Di Tella, CABA; Complejo Cultural ‘Parque de España’ and Galería La Toma, Rosario (2022); Museo Sívori, CABA (2021); Museo Castagnino, Rosario (2021); Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo (2020 and 2013); Centro Cultural Kirchner, CABA (2020 and 2019); Diego Obligado Galería de arte, Rosario (2018 and 2013); Fundación Osde, Rosario (2017); Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas, Rosario (2015 and 2013), and Hangar, Barcelona (2014).
She lives and works in Rosario, Santa Fe Province.