Luis Mastromatteo is a plastic artist born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1934 and been in Venezuela from 1975. It studied drawing and painting in the National School of Beautiful Arts of Montevideo, made complementary studies of drawing and acceded by aid of opposition to an educational position in the average education from its country to the twenty-three years.
The twenty years that dedicated to education had an investigation character and, in relation to the requirements and necessities of the students could be developing the self-criticism, a fundamental tool for their later artistic unfolding in the mature age. In effect, just after the fifty years it decided to dedicate itself to the art with the intention to let some track of his pass through the life. It was dedicated simultaneously to the painting and to the modeled one, with the difference of which while the painting served to him like life means, the masks became a reserve for their personal enjoyment. It is more, according to the opinion of this artist, more important that the profit of each mask, the didactic value resides in the set, thus he has tried to conserve the totality of the pieces. It is possible to indicate that this collection has still not been shown público.
This collection of seventy masks that we presented/displayed to them corresponds to a large extent to the last years, summarize or better obtained in this sort, for that reason the aspiration of the artist in relation to the final destiny of this collection, is that it is integrated to the permanent of some museum or exposed sample of traveling form so that they can be appreciated by great amount of public.
As it is possible to be appreciated in the samples, one is a conception different from most traditional. The mask from its origins are been associate to rituals of old cultures and some that still subsist in diverse places of the world. Made by craftsmen or popular artists and, in spite of the great variety of forms, the careful one finished and all the creative contribution, did not extend as artistic works and their authors have been in the anonymity.
We cannot let mention the strong influence that exerted the African masks in Picasso, particularly in that titled painting “Them demoiselles D’Avignon”, considered by the critical like the front door to the modern art.
This new conception of the mask looks for to rescue it like plastic object loose of others asociacionesLuis Mastromatteo 2006. Here the factions are not more than a pretext to create forms; the expression that is obtained in each case is an accidental result and not a deliberate search. The function of the color, aside from the decorative one, is the one to heighten and to help to emphasize the three-dimensional forms bi and. 
The sort of the mask locks up a creative potential that not yet sufficiently has been explored. It would not be to be strange that, from this experience and this original contribution, new and valuable creations can arise in which could be constituted like the mask of the new century.
The masks are made with wood and wood paste (sawdust and synthetic tails), each one has approximately 0.40 meters of stop.
The exhibition of this gallery Web is on sale, favor to also comment out aesthetic.
