DIRECTORY 2025

Matteo Cervone | Photography

After graduating in Political Science and specializing in Transactional Analysis, Matteo Cervone (Milan, 1966) worked for 25 years in multinational service companies as a behavioral trainer, organizational development project manager, and process specialist. His artistic soul has remained far from everyday life for many years while he is achieving other goals. He began experimenting with photography and material manipulation in 1999. For more than two decades, he improved the fundamentals: lighting techniques, chromatology, project design, materials technology, digital tools, and visual communication. He opened his first location (Photòr Art Studio) in 2011 on the Navigli in the heart of Milan. In 2018, he struck out on his own and has been working on Visual Art ever since. Matteo Cervone is part of that movement of contemporary artists who arrive to the art world as an expression of mellow age after having found their own 'place in the world' in terms of work, family, and history. The way his work is born, or the experience of art expression, is the basic meaningful brick. It is a path related to self-consciousness about maturity, established meanings, and what tomorrow holds.

His series, Other Worlds, is a visual journey in time and space. Traffic lights become the main characters of an urban stage, from simple colored lights to real actors in a modern play. Each lantern tells a unique and unexpected story about ourselves and our world. From their high vantage point, they would watch our sometimes hurried and sometimes slow pace, unable to understand our motivations. They would assign the green color to pleasant actions shared by the rest of the community and the red color to passions, contradictory emotions, vices, and taboos. Meanwhile, the yellow color, often the most underestimated signal, represents choice, free will, and change. The photographs and installations show a mirror of our lives. The traffic lights are an ironic but incorruptible 'Jiminy Cricket', sometimes amusing, sometimes thoughtful.

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