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Mattia Guarnera

Mattia’s practice draws on visual language taken from sports and entertainment as a catalyst to explore and better understand the broader nuances of the everyday human condition; taking the sport out of sporting. His work addresses a variety of contemporary themes such as identity, expression, competition, masculinity and stardom. He does so by homing into often overlooked scenes and moments which he believes evoke interesting allegorical, ideological and philosophical debates that could otherwise be difficult to express. This results in outcomes which appear mystically vague with nothing seeming set or conclusive, existing in a state of limbo. Mattia believes that this reflects a Buddhist-like or Carl Yung-esk ideology which both grapples yet embrace parallels such as good and evil, pain and glory, digital and real, clear and vague.

2019
- Flying Dutchman, London, SE5 7SY (December 4th)
- Reggae Festival - Fox N Firkin, London, SE13 6JZ (June 22nd)

2020
- What ́s Not Being Said- South London Gallery, London, SE5 8UH (January 22nd - 29th)
- Don’t Panic - Southwark Park Galleries / Dilston Gallery, London, SE16 2DD (January 25th - 26th)

2021
- Who To Blame - Serving the People Virtual Exhibition
- Blast Room III- Holy Art, Virtual Exhibition January 5th
- Floor Exh 07 - Virtual Exhibition
- Livesey Exchange Exhibition Weekend - 135A Bird in Bush road, London, SE15 1QP (July 10th - 11th)
- Peckham art Festival - Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Rd, London SE15 3SN (September 17th - 19th)
- Permanent Temporary - (London Design Festival) The Bottle Factory, 12 Ossory Rd, London SE1 5AN (September 24th - 26th)
- The Horses Mouth (Live Crit) - The Bomb Factory, 9-15 Elthorne Rd, Archway, London N19 4AJ (October 12th)
- Paradise Mind - Peckham Levels, 95A Rye Ln, London SE15 4ST (October 23rd)
- “Football Crazy Football Madness - Pattern Of Play, Hoxton Arches, Arch 402 Cremer St, London E2 8HD (November 18th - 21st)
- Gift - A.P.T Gallery, 6 Creekside, London SE8 4SA (November 18th - 28th)
- EN-GER-LAND - Oof Gallery, Warmington House, 744 High Road, London, N17 0AP (December 3 - March 1st 2022(
- Hyper-contemporary - Hasbrook Gallery, Virtual Exhibition (December 17th)

2022
- We’r Watching You pt.2 - South Paek Gallery, 1 Park Approach, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA (February 12th - 13th)
- Hyper-contemporary - Hasbrook Gallery, Real Tinsel , 1013-1015 W Historic Mitchell St, Milwaukee, WI 53204, United States (March 16th - 30th)
- Imagining Otherwise - The Who Gallery/ Harlesden Gallerey - The Who Gallery, 23 Grafton St, London, W1S 4EY (May 23rd-June 12th)
- Degree Show - Camberwell London University Of Arts, 45-65 Peckham Rd, London ,SE5 8UF (June 20th- 23rd)
- Anga - Forever Good, 54 Druid St, London SE1 2EZ (June 25th - 27th)
- Permanent Temporary - The Bottle Factory, 12 Ossory Road, London, SE1 5AN (24th September - 25th September)
- In The House Of Babylon - Harlesden Gallery, 57 High St, London NW10 4NJ (July 21st -11th September)
- The Feast For The Eyes - StART Art Fair Seoul, Sung Dong Gu, Seoul sup 2 gil (September 1st - September 6th)
- Open House - Better Go South Berlin, Brunnenstrasse 25B Berlin, Germany (September 17th - 18th)
- Relationship To Self - The Take Courage Gallery, 1st Floor, 388b New Cross Rd, London SE14 6TY (September 24th)
- Loaded - IRL Gallery, 80 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222, United States (10th October - November)- Start.Art Fair - Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, London SW3 4RY (October 12th - October 16)
- Buffer - Guts gallery, Unit 2, Sidings House, 10 Andre St, Lower Clapton, London E8 2AA (November 10th- December)
- Corporeal Confusion - Tadlow house, The Chaplin centre, Thurlow street, London, SE17 2DG (11th November - 21st December)
- Under The Jaguar Sun - Kravitz Gallery, 17 Soho Square London, W1D 3QJ (14th November - 14th December)
- STUTTGART PAPERWORK SHOW - Better Go South , Furtbachstraße 2B, Stuttgart, Germany, 70178 (November 17th - December 4th)
- Complexcon - Little Star Oyster Booth - 300 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, California (19th November - 20th November)
- Two Day Sound System - Harlesden Gallery, 57 High St, London NW10 4NJ (28th November - 29th November)
- COLLECTIVIST - Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Rd, London, SE15 3SN (7th December -10th December)

2023
- Rotation Works Artist Residency - Java studio, 252 Java St STE. 249, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11222, (4th January - 5th February)
- Close To Home - RA (Royal Academy) Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD (7th March - 25th June)
- Offset - 948 x Observer @ Are You Mad - 97 berwick street, London, W1F 0QB (18th March - 19th March)
- Stella Artois, The Pub Renaissance Campaign and Auction (23rd March - 5th April)