MATTEO MESSERVY
"Humanizing the urban experience"
Artist Philosophy
"Every city can return to it's splendour by creating a renewed vision of the achievements of it's inhabitants.
The urban experience is enhanced when there is a reference to the past, while facing the future with optimism".
Introduction
Matteo Messervy is a French designer, an artist, a sculpturer, a choreographer of light.
It is his prime material through which plac-es, objects,
artworks come into life, chang-
ing and enhancing people's perception and awareness of their environment, making it a vibrant and colorful haven to live in.
Born in France, raised in central
America
and Spain, he studied Design at the renowned École Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques Penninghen in Paris.
His career followed an equally
internation-
al path reflected in lighting design projects worldwide, including collaborations with renowned star architects like Zaha
Hadid,
Ron Arad and Daneil Libeskind. The artist is know for his Monument installation in major cultural landmarks such as the Hotel deVille de Paris and Lille, European Capital of Culture
2004. Employing light projections, large scale sculptures, and sound. He designed significant projects for architectural landmarks like the Centre George Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art, and the S4 Terminal at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
Recently, Messervy opened his studio in Asia He is currently working on large-scale project in India and Thailand.
Well-being
is the matrix from which all his work originates, conveying a deep emotional resonance. The human is always at the center of his work.
Light is used as a medium, a messenger through which his vision reaches people.
