The right to holiday is surely a theme dear to Maurizio Mercuri, committed, with his work as an artist, to assert the value of leisure, inventiveness and imagination pursued to the detriment of hard work. The alienating dimension of efficiency and top performance typical of the capitalistic system perhaps responsible for denying the fulll happiness of living beings, is rejected by Mercuri who concentrates his attention on the principle of pleasure and of the unconscious rather than on the principle of reality. And than the necessity to approach "trash" the scraps, the rubbish of the technological industrial world in order to fullfil the rescue to be carried out through creativity and irony. However Mercuri confronts the "trash" line in a discreet, cold, conceptual manner, without ever resorting to easy, striking solutions.The spirit with which the artist approaches the everiday objects is the same as the spirit of the anthropologist who finds out and analyses traces of human existence, as is the case with the technological means that he, through a recovery of the obsolete, re-invents and freely re-interprets. Mercuri's works shot throgh an elaborated shattering/reassembling of everiday objects, cleverly manage to penetrate the ambient, turning into powerful generator of mental energy on which we can draw to re-discover the margins of pleasure that the present electronic age can allow us to have.