Matteo Ciffo - Frammenti - Eracle

- Contemporary sculpture by Matteo Ciffo (Italy - 1987)
- Title Frammenti-Eracle
- Year 2026. Artist's proof 1/2 (Edition no. 8 specimens)
- Signed and authenticated by the artist, with certificate of authenticity
- Material: Cold fusion of marble and stone powders
- Excellent condition



FRAMMENTI Collection

The comparison with classical sculpture is a central element of this collection. Those forms, historically linked to the idea of perfection, eternity and collective memory, are taken as a starting point and subjected to a process of fragmentation and redefinition.
The form is no longer understood as a stable unity, but as a transitory condition. It is interrupted, broken down and recomposed, revealing its own unstable nature. The volume opens, separates into blocks and fragments, generating a new structure in which time is no longer hidden, but becomes a visible element.
This tension eliminates the idea of perfection as an absolute state. What appears eternal reveals its own vulnerability. The classical form survives, but transformed: no longer a symbol of immortality, but a presence traversed by time, exposed to change and returned to a new dimension.



MATTEO CIFFO

Born in Biella in 1987, since 2007 I have developed a research focused on matter, its transformation and the memory it preserves. My work arises from a direct relationship with noble and complex materials such as marble and stone powders, natural pigments, Armenian earths, oxides and metals. I do not consider them mere expressive tools, but living presences, vessels of time, history and possibilities of rebirth.

Through a process I consider more ritual than sculptural: a rebirth of stone guided by my hand. The practice stems from observation and the desire to restore life to what has been shattered, abandoned or forgotten. Fragments and scraps, often from the work of other sculptors, become the original material for my works.
They are materials that already carry a history within themselves. I disassemble and reassemble them, generating forms that no longer belong to their previous state, but to a new condition. Each work emerges from a fragile balance between loss and rebirth, between memory and possibility, making visible the moment when matter ceases to be what it was and becomes something else.

The path takes the form of a transformation that goes beyond traditional sculpture, approaching an almost alchemical dimension. I use materials that have already lived, disassembling and recomposing them to generate new forms and identities. Each creation arises from a tension between destruction and regeneration, between loss and memory, making visible a continuous state of change.
The research confronts materials that embody a deep contradiction: seemingly eternal and indestructible, yet at the same time sensitive and vulnerable. What seems immutable reveals an unstable nature, capable of reacting, rusting and transforming over time. This condition makes matter an active part of the work, involved in a constant dialogue with time and the environment.
Perfection yields to fragility, and eternity manifests as a living and human experience. Matter is not subordinate, but becomes co-author, preserving on the surface traces of gesture, process and its own evolution.

An autodidact, I built my path through experimentation, observation and listening. The approach does not aim at control, but at accompanying the material in its transformation. The resulting forms reflect how memory works: structures in which fragments, traces and Absences coexist and regenerate.
This practice explores matter as a living archive. The sculptures emerge as presences suspended between ruin and rebirth, between permanence and transformation, returning to matter a deeply contemporary and human dimension.