Matteo Basilé, portrait from the Magnifica Humanitas series: a black-and-white face with two tears

Istituto
Italiano
di Cultura
Paris

13 November 2026
22 January 2027

Matteo
Basilé. Magnifica
Humanitas

Opening Thursday 12 November 2026, 6.30 pm, in the presence of the artist
On the occasion of Paris Photo 2026 · curated by Antonio Calbi, Dominique Moulon

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Chapters View all
Rerum Novarum, 2025 Rerum Novarum
2025 Lumen et Ombra, 2025 Lumen et Ombra
2025 Floramagnifica, 2022–23 Floramagnifica
2022–23 Hybrida, 2022 Hybrida
2022 Pietra Santa, 2016 Pietra Santa
2016 Unseen, 2014 Unseen
2014
  1. 2025 Rerum Novarum A rite of passage between matter, body and code. 30 Matteo Basilé, Rerum Novarum
  2. 2025 Lumen et Ombra Light is the portrait. Shadow, its hidden fate. 10 Matteo Basilé, Lumen et Ombra
  3. 2024 Intermundia Between worlds: Artemisia in Leonardo’s landscapes. 5 Matteo Basilé, Intermundia
  4. 2022–23 Floramagnifica One feminine DNA, twenty-one generations in a single instant. 19 Matteo Basilé, Floramagnifica
  5. 2022 Hybrida Anomalies, never abnormal: a Digital Birth. 18 Matteo Basilé, Hybrida
  6. 2019 Memento The museum flooded by an imaginary deluge. 27 Matteo Basilé, Memento
  7. 2017 Viaggio al centro della Terra Lava fields, stranded whales, pietàs. 12 Matteo Basilé, Viaggio al centro della Terra
  8. 2016 Pietra Santa Freeing the presences trapped in marble. 17 Matteo Basilé, Pietra Santa
Films All films

Video works · 2025

Pholisma Sonorae

With Pholisma Sonorae, Matteo Basilé reimagines the contemporary portrait, navigating a liminal space where identity, technology and perception converge. The portrait as augmented vision and symbolic synthesis.

Critical voices

«For thirty years Matteo Basilé has photographed what the world prefers not to look at: saints and madmen, bodies at the border, faces bearing the weight of time.»
Magnifica Humanitas, Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, 2026
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Museums and institutions (08)

Galleries (03)

Lumen et Ombra, 2025
Phygital

Every work has two states

All the works are phygital: when a device is brought close, each opens into a second state, invisible to the naked eye, like altarpieces that opened only on feast days.

Augmented reality
Framed with a phone, the works open into their second state. Lumen et Ombra Intermundia
Digital certificate
Every work is registered in the ARTITUDE archive with a certificate that can be verified online. ARTITUDE
Publications All publications
  1. Hybrida, Book 2022 — Matteo Basilé Hybrida Book, 2022
  2. Falling Out of Time, Catalogue 2019 — Matteo Basilé Falling Out of Time Catalogue, 2019 · PDF
  3. Thishumanity, Monograph 2010 — Matteo Basilé Thishumanity Monograph, 2010 · PDF
  4. The Saints Are Coming, Book 2008 — Matteo Basilé The Saints Are Coming Book, 2008 · PDF
  5. F.M., Catalogue 1999 — Matteo Basilé F.M. Catalogue, 1999 · PDF
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