Eliseo Mattiacci

In 1967 La Tartaruga gallery opened Mattiacci's first solo exhibition, featuring “Tubo” (Tube), a 150 meters, yellow-coloured, nickel-plated iron tube designed to change the perception of the environment and encourage the public to modify it.

In 1969 he staged a performative action at Galleria L’Attico by entering the gallery with a compressor that crushes a path made of pozzolana ash.

During the 1980s, Mattiacci’s research focused on the use of metal with whom he realised large-scale works inspired by his interests in cosmic-astronomical themes.

[5] Mattiacci was the recipient of the 1995 Fujisankei Hokone Open Air Museum Biennial Prize in Tokyo and the Antonio Feltrinelli Sculpture Award in Rome in 2008.

In 2013 Germano Celant edited a comprehensive monograph on his work published by Skira.