Matteo Peretti (Rome, 1975) is a young artists who adopts an apparently playful creative method to reveal - with his clever, ironical and sarcastically realistic approach - the coercive mechanisms subliminally underlying the society we live in. The Synthetic Brain are panels or televisions in which the obsessive accumulation of objects – small toys made of recycled materials, carpeted by a unifying glaze which reduces them to one colour – results in a sort of explosion of matter, an overflow which metaphorically represents the endless and incessant sequence of images and notions we are daily exposed to. The selection of portraits, composed of sculptural installations always characterised by energetic and emotionally impactful primary colours, narrate a subtle play, which can be interpreted at two levels: the characters of these works are tiny toy soldiers, deployed on a surreal battlefield which discloses power plays, human weaknesses, personal behind-the-scenes intrigues, disenchantment.
The playful atmosphere, that always permeates the Roman artist's production, is indicative of a sharp, transgressive and completely personal post-pop imagery, which earned Matteo Peretti the recognition as one of the most original and receptive young artists on the contemporary artistic scene.