“Order
after chaos crystallized in an almost perfect form. By its
nature, the titanium disc remains in a state of gravitational
suspension in space. A disc of light looms and soars on an
anti-perspective diagonal, moves into and out of the wall,
coagulates space, reassures and unsettles the memory of cosmic
forces and energy.” This is how Mattiacci explains the
disc of titanium and aluminium set into the wall of the Galleria
Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome and visibly suspended
in space. The conflict between restlessness and reassurance,
incumbency and levitation is inherent in the very conception
of the form and its relationship with space; it has no need
for accessory elements such as, in other works, the magnet.
“The best works for me are those that come most easily,
precisely due to their essential nature, which come close
to the perfection that I wish to obtain, to the synthesis
and concreteness that in sculpture we can call form. Identifiable
but not static; a form in movement”. |
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