ELISEO MATTIACCI

A protagonist of contemporary art, sculptor Eliseo Mattiacci, born in 1940, has been attracted by metals and by the spectacular process of welding since he was young. Critics consider Mattiacci'sartistic career starting from the 1960s, when the artist was close to the international language of the Arte Povera and minimalism, arriving at the sculptures of the 1980s that were so light and sensitive that they could fit into any context, interacting with them. Mattiacci's artistic path is blended with episodes in his life and the historical events of his time: the supporting structure of the work in fact consists of an illustrated chronology offering readers numerous testimonies of the age, comprising photographs, texts, invitations, books and poetic declarations.
ForIcario, Mattiacci has devised an itinerary that ideally slopes upwards, seeking precisely those ‘possible worlds’ with a series of works that focuses on the relationship of man with the cosmos, territories like wine, business withart and territory. ‘Le Vie del cielo’ (1996), placed in the front garden of the winery, represents a the earth itself crossed by two rails which lead the visitor to the interstellar and celestial space; ‘Corpo Celeste’ (2008, created for this exhibition), a mountain of metallic shavings in an inner space that appears to be a model of the universe, or the universe before it began, during the original chaos;‘Fabbrica del Cosmo’ (2004-2008), a group of drawings which look like the ‘kitchen of the universe’, representing all the energies and forces that human imaginary places in the cosmos.

LE VIE DEL CIELO

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