Giuseppe De Mattia Italian, 1980

Giuseppe De Mattia (Bari, Italy, 1980)

Born in Bari in 1980, De Mattia studied at Dams in Bologna. After working at a Portuguese cinema production company, in 2006, he began a project on family photographic archives.

In 2015, he started the editorial project L.T – Tasso Books. In 2020, he founded Marketstudio, bringing together artistic projects in a frame shop in Bologna.

After participating, in 2021, in the MAMbo artistic residency project for "The New Bread Oven" project, he held his first solo self-produced exhibition at the OPR Gallery in Milan.

Since 2022, he has worked in collectives such as Coclite/De Mattia and Sea House (with Luca Coclite and Claudio Musso).

The artist now lives and works between Noha (Lecce) and Bologna, where he collaborates with Home Movies – the National Archive of Family Films and the Cineteca of Bologna.

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