Mattiacci

Eliseo Mattiacci trained as an artist in Rome during the most vital years of the innovative artistic movements of the 1960s.
He began to exhibit his works in 1961, participating in his first group shows with metal sculptures made with found materials.
In 1964 he moved permanently to Rome, where, in 1967, he had his first solo exhibition at Galleria La Tartaruga; Mattiacci invaded the gallery space and the surrounding area with a jointed metal tube painted yellow, 150 metres in length.

His artistic output consists of large sculptures made with metal structures (steel, copper, iron, aluminium, bronze, lodestone) that are intended to seek new relationships with space and define these with a notable sense of equilibrium and energy.
From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s he actively accompanied the process of formation of the work with his own presence, staging public performances and encouraging the spectators to participate. Mattiacci's sculptures express various aspects that are apparently contradictory, such as strength and fragility, disequilibrium and stability, individuality and participation, chaos and order, gravity and lightness.