Not Quite Myself Today
Video Works by Eight Artists
Arizona State University Art Museum
at the Nelson Fine Arts Center
December 15, 2001 - March 3, 2002
Matt Marello
Artist Trilogy (Bucket of Blood), 2000
Video (From the film A Bucket of Blood, 1959)
00:05:00
Courtesy of the artist and Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
Matt Marello
Lives and works in New York
Artist Trilogy
The price one must pay to succeed as an artist in the twenty-first century can be deadly. Enduring abuse and disdain from the public, gallery owners and art critics often lead artists to second-guess the very value of their work, as well as their choice of career. The personas of Matt Marello apparently know this all too well.
Reworking a series of three classic movies with original storylines revolving around an artist, Matt Marello edits himself into these movies, replacing the original fictional artist with himself. Interacting with other characters in the films, Marello suffers the pain of the cinematically-created artists as they try to succeed in a bitter and competitive art world. The work illustrates the abuse of artists at the hands of critics and gallery owners, together with the non-recognition of an artist's worth until they are deceased.
About the Artist
Matt Marello received a BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His work has been included in the exhibitions: The Artists Trilogy, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; The Fight, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY; Sitcoms, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Disasters , Approdi Associazione Cuturale, Rome, Italy; Disasters, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY; Coming Soon, Icebox, Athens, Greece; Coming Soon, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Coming Soon, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Le Numerique, Galerie de pret d'oevres d'art, Brussels, Belgium; Welcome, Plazzo dei Priori, Fermo, Italy; Film Stills White Columns, New York, NY; Rejouissez Vous!, La Parvis Centre d'Art Contemporain, Tarbes, France; Another Cusp, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY; My Generation, Atlantis Gallery, London, England; Marginalia, Millennium Film Center, New York, NY; Affinities Narratives, GB Agency, Paris, France; Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting, Independent Curators International, toured to Western Washington University in Bellingham, John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Akron Art Museum in Akron, Fuller Art Museum in Brockton, and the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania; Face Off, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium; Flesh and Blood, De Witte Zaal, Gent, Belgium; Multiple Sensations, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; New Videos: Claude Panier, Danielle Buetti, Cristoph Draeger, Matt Marello, Stepanek and Maslin, Damasquine, Brussels, Belgium; Fido Television, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY; 3 Cubed, Artists Space, New York, NY; Matteo Basile, Gianluca Cosci, Matt Marello: New Work, Il Ponte, Rome, Italy; Cutting the Edge: New York, Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton, CA; Shout Outs, Rice University Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX; Sonopticon 99, Action Space, Los Angeles, CA; Aion, Museo Archiologico Nationale, Formia, Italy; Attention Spam, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Fin de Siecle: New York, Nantes, France; Soap.com, Kulturgelande Nonntal, Slazburg, Austria; Videorama, Depot-Kunst und Diskussion, Vienna, Austria; The Backroom Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY; Hybro Video, Exit Art, New York, NY; Artenergie, Palazzo Corsini, Florence, Italy; Whimsiecle, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy; Adicere Animos, Scoula Elementari, Cesenatico, Italy; Inedito Aperto '96, Latina Expo, Latina, Italy; Transformers, Plazzo dei Priori, Fermo, Italy; Ipermedia, Ronchini Arte, Terni, Italy; XVI Festival International de la Video et des Arts Electroniques, Palazzo della Sorpracenerina, Locarno, Switzerland; Congelare/Disgelare, Palazzo Farnese, Ortona, Italy; Videoteca '95, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy; Artista in Pedana, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Courage, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Rag Trade (Right Off the Rack), InterArt Center, New York, NY; The Futura Book Collection, Air de Paris, Nice, France; and The First New Age Show, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
His work is scheduled to appear in the upcoming exhibitions: The Old Testament, Museum of Art, Guadalajara, Mexico; Submerge, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany; and at the Crossound Festival, Juneau, Alaska.
John D. Spiak
Curatorial Museum Specialist
Arizona State University Art Museum
For more information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
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