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Seems that the main characteristic of the contemporary art is that is difficult to define it, that is because its own boundaries are constantly redefined dealing with the technology’s development, and, of course, with the topics always belonged to the artistic imaginary. In this sense we can define Matteo Peterlini as a contemporary artist. What he does is a process of observation of reality, trying to enlighten what seems to be shadowed by the daily life. In his art works he investigates the phenomena of the vision as phenomenological aspect: how we can look at the world and how the world look at us. The aim of the work is the opening of new areas of paradox that speak not only about aesthetics, but also about the human state.
Since 2001, with the project called Depeople, he takes pictures of people in the street, in the park on the rivers to describe same posture and shape of people in different context of live. In 2003 he developed Meyouother (Iotualtro) a web site about identity; the work was dedicated to collected pictures sent via email, and then a software mixed them in real time and generated a new one. In 2004 he exhibited V6 a work in solo show at Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento e Rovereto. V6 is a work that investigate the visual deconstruction of female bodies. In 2006 a picture of series Backscape was published in the book PASSAGES - Dialogue with the dark , with the contribution of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and an unpublished work of José Saramago, Ed. Mimesis 2006. In the 2007 the same work as installation was exhibited at Casa del Mantenga, Mantova, Italia. In the 2008/2009 he was selected for European Month of Photography, Mutations II Moving Stills, Paris, Berlin, Bratislava, Luxembourg, Moscow, Rome and Vienna.