....On the whole, considering the situation outlined, Maurizio Mercuri enriches his interventions with a subtle patina of life experiences: at Massimo De Carlo's gallery the artist shows a junk vase lined with silicon inside and hit with a hammer so that its surface is cracked without its being shattered. The junk objects and the triggered off processes have a density of their own and an immateriality connected with use. Subsequently in the moment of the rielaboration, the artist's subjectivity acts as a filter often on the edge of an almost imperceptible irony.