"When I was born I accepted everything free in life" asserted one of the characters by Andrea Pazienza; it is in the same spirit that M.M. sets out on his exploratory journey in the context that surrounds him.
In his works we find found objects and lived up situations characterized by the denseness of existence that permeates them, chosen therefore for their possibility to belong to a mental space regarding thought, while from the sphere of electronics he will likewise choose to recover obsolete and wasted technologies in order to reinvent them. In one of his works, shown at "Aperto Out of Order", (Bologna, Modern Art Gallery) a small luminous led is connected with the body of a dead fly, thus recalling, with subtle humour, the interpenetration of the natural and the artificial, and pointing out th impalpability of technological "life".Then, humour and playful irony are necessary to react to the blows that come from the external context and are, in the same time, useful to convey a re-awakening of perception. This can be found, for instance, with the feigned cigarette stubs, whose charcoals, formed by a miniaturized neon, are kept permanently lit up; the work , camouflaged in the background, requires a high degree of perceptive sharpness, able to recognize and amplify the unsteady threshold that separates fiction from reality. A further relevant element in M.M.'s artistic research is, no doubt, music, which is part of his work , both as personal production and as something borrowed from the existent, for example the big size sea shell which sends out the summer musical hits. Besides, analysing the wide range of his works, we find an approach to spirituality, where the meditative state is induced by a sort of hypnotic trance: inspired by this feeling of simple spirituality, sprung from the ravines of everyday life, M.M. produces works such as the loop grafted on the voice of the well-known telecaster Sandro Ciotti; transmitted non-stop from an old radio placed near a bath towel in the 70's style. Once again there appears an operative element often present in his works, an element which can be found in the exigency to pursue, with lucid determination, a strayed and distorted functionality. In M.'s work,"Imagination in Power" is realized in a private, subjective sphere, as a strategy to escape from the homologation , the alienating dimension of work, the pressures we often have to suffer, acting in our social background. Through electronics, inventions, spirituality, it will be possible to rediscover those margins of pleasure and reflections, which, nowadasys, are often sacrificed fo productive aims.