Mattia Moreni

Visiting museums and a few art galleries, I’ve realized something.  

Yesterday I went to see an exhibition by the artist Mattia Moreni. I joined the guided tour, and the guide enlightened me by explaining that the artist essentially moved from a material, tactile form of art—where the colors seemed to emerge physically from the work—to a flat art, aligned with the surface of the canvas.  

The constructions from this later period partly depicted communicating cyborg-like figures, created around the same time as early Windows programs such as Photoshop, and so on.  

In this section, you can also notice the disappearance of the “deprived beings” that appeared in his material works.  

And then the artist’s shoes… present from the very beginning, until they finally appear as real objects in a display case right before you exit!

To sail in the ocean

  Sure, the sky in Northern Europe isn’t as sunny as in the Mediterranean, especially in the in‑between seasons like spring and autumn. But if I’m in those places with a sailboat, I have everything to gain in terms of wind: it stays steady in both direction and strength throughout the day, and under a high‑pressure system the night is calm. Yes, the currents are strong, and sometimes—even with all the sails up—you find yourself stuck at zero knots. But there are the tide tables, and after all there’s the change of direction that pushes the boat beyond what its sails can do.