Matteo Abbondanza was born in Genoa and actually lives in Milan: at the age of 30 he felt in love with photography and chose to explore it by self-studying. Today he produces images in which the aesthetics and the immediacy of the message are predominant: his artistic journey led him to an increasingly essential photography in which the shape itself becomes the content of the images.
His current style is the result of a long photographic path, begun in 2006, which has evolved up to here: today his works are a mix of reality and imagination expressed in a linear, minimal and geometric way.
Through photography, the author transforms reality into metaphysical environments, dreamlike representations, ironic worlds, always leveraging his own point of view, key element of his production, which stands out for its strong visual impact, compositional order, and for the extreme precision of lines and planes.
His references are Ellsworth Kelly, Piet Mondrian, Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinsky, Franco Fontana.
During the last years Abbondanza exhibited his photos in Rome, Milan, Venice, Florence, New York, Budapest, Assisi, Turin, Triest, Mantua and Lodi, both in collective and solo exhibitions.
Several international and Italian media wrote about his art, such as L'oeil de la photographie, Exibart, The pure inner, Aperture Magazine, Il Giornale d'Italia, Bagzine, Woofer Magazine, Il Giornale Off, Mag72, Wikiradio, La strada d'Italia and various daily Italian newspapers.
In 2021 he collaborated with Einaudi Editore. In 2023 he published his first photographic book: la forma è il contenuto.