Serpentin
Roberto Matta

Serpentin is a bronze sculpture by Roberto Matta, cast in 1993 at Fonderia Bonvicini.
Edition 7/8 — of which only four copies were actually realized — coming from La Bandita, the artist’s final residence near Tarquinia.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by Matta Archives.

Exhibited and published in the following exhibitions and catalogues:
-Casa Matta, Triennale di Milano, 2012
-Roberto Matta 1911-2002, Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, 2024

Matta’s sculptures represent a plastic universe where memory of the past and imagination fuse in bronze. Oceanic, primitive, and African art, totemic idols, Pre-Columbian civilizations, and Etruscan culture blend with technological and futuristic suggestions. The prehistoric amalgamates with the sci-fi in figures born from the aggregation of heterogeneous signs, situated between the atavistic and the extraordinary: stele-statues and semi-anthropomorphic beings—whose anthropological reference is often amplified by their titles—reflecting a profound investigation into the roots of humanity while challenging the limits of space-time.