{"id":10518,"date":"2024-01-24T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10518"},"modified":"2024-01-24T10:44:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:44:59","slug":"tony-matelli-in-friends-of-the-pod-at-broadway-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/24\/tony-matelli-in-friends-of-the-pod-at-broadway-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Matelli in \u2018Friends of the Pod\u2019 at Broadway Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Friends of the Pod,\u2019 an enjoyable group exhibition at <a href=\"https:\/\/broadwaygallery.nyc\/exhibitions\/43-friends-of-the-pod\/\">Broadway Gallery<\/a> in Tribeca featuring artists linked to a podcast hosted by advisor Benjamin Godsill and Vanity Fair art columnist Nate Freeman opens with this wonderfully weird assemblage by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonymatelli.com\">Tony Matelli<\/a>.\u00a0 Anyone who knows Matelli\u2019s sculpture knows to mistrust what they see; the master of trompe l\u2019oeil has produced realistic human bodies and floral arrangements that appear to float upside down as well as pieces of what look to be classical statuary that include pieces of fruit and vegetables.\u00a0 Traditionally understood in European painting as a warning of mortality, perfect fruits and flowers point to the inevitability of what will come next.\u00a0 Matelli\u2019s veg avoids this fate while triumphing over a human head that no longer stands upright.\u00a0 (On view through Feb 3<sup>rd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3014px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/7fe14099-284f-bb54-9d56-df30812bc594.jpg\" width=\"3014\" height=\"2793\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Matelli, Bust (Eggplant and Celery), concrete, painted bronze, 13 x 18 x 12 inches, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Friends of the Pod,\u2019 an enjoyable group exhibition at Broadway Gallery in Tribeca featuring artists linked to a podcast hosted by advisor Benjamin Godsill and Vanity Fair art columnist Nate Freeman opens with this wonderfully weird assemblage by Tony Matelli.\u00a0 Anyone who knows Matelli\u2019s sculpture knows to mistrust what they see; the master of trompe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/24\/tony-matelli-in-friends-of-the-pod-at-broadway-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tony Matelli in \u2018Friends of the Pod\u2019 at Broadway Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[10742,10739,2154,10740,10738,10741,10743,2195,7567],"class_list":["post-10518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-benjamin-godsill","tag-broadway-gallery","tag-bust","tag-eggplant-and-celery","tag-friends-of-the-pod","tag-nate-freeman","tag-nota-bene","tag-tony-matelli","tag-tribeca"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2JE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10519,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518\/revisions\/10519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}