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Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian
Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian

A mummified culture

Eliseo Mattiacci

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GAM - Gallery of Modern Art of Turin

GAM - Gallery of Modern Art of Turin

Via Magenta, 31, Turin

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Mummified culture was exhibited during one of the most controversial Venice Biennials, that of 1972, marked by the stir around the Second solution of immortality by Gino De Dominicis. Mattiacci participated with four works: "Primary Alphabets" (1972), twelve cast aluminum stelae reproducing imaginary lost alphabets; "Planisphere with time zones" (1972), seven clocks fixed to the wall; "Total Project" (1972), consisting of a real working telephone accompanied by a series of international telephone directories, and the work in the GAM collection "Cultura mummifiata" , artfully disordered accumulation of one hundred casts of cast aluminum books, already presented in Rome at the beginning of the year together with Primary Alphabets. Four works on the cultural codes at the basis of our learning: the alphabet and the clock, which determine language and time, the telephone, capable of modifying our perception of communication and physical distance and finally books, safes of knowledge, history, archive of Western society. The disorder of the volumes, placed on the ground in an uneven heap, some of them balanced, resting on top of others in a vertical position, is only apparent: they are immobile, fixed, "mummified". Mattiacci constructs a conceptual image that reflects on culture as a convention, on the risk of closure and the static nature of knowledge, managing to maintain a clear and evocative gaze.
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Title: A mummified culture

Author: Eliseo Mattiacci

Date: 1972

Technique: 134 casts of books in cast aluminum

Displayed in: GAM - Gallery of Modern Art of Turin

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