Eliseo Mattiacci | Artists | Gori Collection

Eliseo Mattiacci (Cagli, 1940 – Pesaro, 2019)

In 2000, Giuliano Goriinvited Eliseo Mattiacci to hold a solo exhibitionat Cascina Terrarossa. The former agricultural rooms filled with pieces of industrial iron and weights, distributed on the floors or suspended from the high ceilings by magnets attached to pulleys. The breadth of the works and the artist’s commitment to this temporary event convinced the commissioner that Mattiacci should leave a lasting trace of the experience, so he asked him to summarize his ideas in a work intended to remain permanently.

So, in the fall, Mattiacci occupied the last available room in the corridor on the first floor of the fattoria building. Fortunately, the space coincides with the corner of the building, and the artist benefits from two windows on adjacent walls. To enhance the green world that shines through these openings, the artist chooses to confine the area of his intervention only to the floor. Here, he re-creates a room from his exhibition by distributing spherical lead weights in a generous quantity, enough to completely conceal the terracotta flooring. On top of these beadlike elementssits an aluminum sphere flanked by two semispheres of the same material that seems to emerge from the cosmos of small lead weights, summarizing what Mattiacci titles “La mia idea del cosmo” (My Idea of the Cosmos).

“…an extraordinary image is found ina small room on the upper floor where, on a bed of lead spheres that multiply by refraction the scant light that entering from the … window…,aluminum spheres and hemispheres are laid, almost as if they were relics fallen to Earth from unknown distances, which, in slight relief, bear the astral signs of the long celestial journey that brought them here… And even in the main hall of Terrarossa, where Mattiacci has brought together… entirely new variations of his now old lines of research: the energy of the magnet; the large iron train tracks, leaning against the wall, with their impulse to move elsewhere; the rounded and feminine form of the washbasin; finally, the five discs illustrating various phases of eclipse, which is the most mysterious of celestial metamorphoses.” —Translated from Fabrizio D’Amico, “Eliseo Mattiacci alla Fattoria di Celle” (Eliseo Mattiacci atthe Fattoria di Celle) in the exhibitionleaflet “Eliseo Mattiacci. Microcosmo,” Gli Ori, Pistoia, 2000.

Works by the artist

My Idea of the Cosmos

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