Lovers

When Mattia Novello reflected on creating this work for the project, he first analysed the object: its aesthetics, functionality, and lightness. He asked himself who benefits from it, and the answer was: Us.
Novello sees love as the engine that moves society, filling us and those close to us with energy. Rather than physically altering the objects, which would change their essence, he chose to intervene through their positioning. He placed the two objects facing each other, as if observing one another, joined forever by an element that, once closed and fixed, can no longer reopen. This represents the beauty of two people in love, holding each other’s gaze, the gaze that moves the energy we call love.

Mattia Novello is an Italian artist from Vicenza. He graduated in Visual Communication at the European Institute of Design in Milan, then pursued his studies in Fashion Photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and in Mixed Media Art at Parsons School of Design. After a formative period in the United States, he now lives and works in Italy with a career marked by several prestigious art prizes.

In his practice, Mattia Novello begins with the idea that nothing truly has a beginning or an end. Size, matter, and time—small, large, past, present, future—are human constructs, not absolute. His work explores these limits to represent the essence of reality beyond what is known. He sees time as circular: past, present, and future coexist in an eternal now, where contradictions like life and death or big and small are part of a single whole.
Using multiple mediums, his art focuses on the synthesis of opposites to create a new conscious birth where individuality is recognized and accepted. His installations use symbolic objects such as doors, stairs, and frames, stripped of function to reveal deeper meaning. His work is a path of inner growth, full of paradoxes and tension, inviting viewers to feel the intuition of the Whole beyond words.