Matteo Montani's Red Obsession at Galleria Attico, Rome

Matteo Montani (born Rome, 1972) presents a series of monochrome red paintings at Galleria Attico in Rome. The exhibition explores his latent desire to work with pure red, achieved through numerous glazes and stratifications. Montani's works oscillate between abstraction and figuration, evoking cosmic landscapes, auroras, and architectural forms. The artist describes his practice as a continuous tension toward the idea, challenging the brushstroke beyond gravity. The show features dense, calligraphic compositions where horizontal and vertical motifs collide, suggesting blood, energy, life, and death. The article is written by Michele Luca Nero (born Agnone, 1979), an art writer and son of artist Francesco Nero, who began painting at age six and inherited a passion for theater from his grandfather Valentino, an internationally recognized poet and playwright.