MAY 2013
PIETRO
ROMANO MATARRESE – ITALIA FOR A WISH FOR GREECE
e-mail: fimatarr@tin.it
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Pietro
Romano Matarrese was born in 1949
in Noci (Bari); he's a many-sided artist since the
Sixties.
As a painter, he got
exhibitions in Circolo Culturale La
Quercia in Alberobello (Bari), in High School
"Scacchi" in Bari where he won the first prize; in "III Mostra
di Pittura Città di Mottola" (Taranto), in Circolo "Salvemini"
in Grumo Appula (Bari), in Galleria "Niccolò Piccinni" and
"Artisti in Via Suppa" in Bari.
In 1975 he collaborated
for a film about the XV Reading Jazz Festival (UK). In 1976 he has been
director of one of the first Italian free radios. As a musician, he took
concerts in Abeliano Theatre in Bari;
he wrote and played music for Accademia di Belle Arti's exhibition in ExpoArte
'80. He partecipated to "Palcoscenico in Puglia" tour with some concerts. He
composed and played music for "Eva & Lou" and "Master
Finta... sy" (Rai Uno, national Italian broadcast channel). As a filmaker and a musician he has
produced the following videos: "P-Etrusco Mataurense", "L'Ape
Avara", "La Spada",
"Le nuove invasioni", "Da campane a consone farfalle di forte
intensità", "Sorti da così tanta luce ci rifugiammo in ragionevoli
certezze" in "Filmaker" in Milan and Rome, in "Salso Film e
TV Festival" in Salsomaggiore, "Cervia Video Clip", Messina
"Video Art", "XXXVI Festival Internazionale del Cinema di
Salerno", "XXXVIII Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Montecatini",
"Independent Music Meeting" in Florence, "Video Incontro
Spagna-Germania-Italia", "Monitors" in Rome,
"Teleconfronto" international festival in Chianciano, "Centro
Video Arte" in Ferrara, "Festival di Bellaria", "Firenze
'88", and "Arts' Gape" on the internet for FreewebTV (Wien,
Austria). Video-installation in "Elettronici Graffiti" (ExpoArte '88 in Bari); concert in the
International Festival "TimeZones" in 1988; exhibition in
"Spazio Aperto all'Arte" in "ExpoArte '96" in Bari; ambient
music in Bari's'fortino' for "Arteindosso"; sculpture exhibition in
Piazza della Signoria in Florence for "Caffè d'Arte"; prize for
sculpture in " XXI Medusa Aurea" in Rome. He presented his bilingual essay "About
the trulli's origin" in "XI International Festival Mediterraneo"
in Conversano (Bari)
also with a concert in Bisceglie's amphitheatre. He also discussed on his
essay's subject in a conference held in Alberobello for the Petra Project
sponsored by UNESCO. He was Professor in Brera Academy of Fine Arts (Milan) and now is
teaching in Bari Academy of Fine Arts. He partecipated in the "XXXIV Rassegna Internazionale Città di
Mottola" and "2000 Segni di Pace" in "ExpoArte 2000"
in Bari.