Andrea Bellini FlashArt January 2003

...Less autobiographical than the first two, is M.M.The artist uses daily objects elaborated and presented in hallucinated and absurd situations with a particular flavour of obtuseness, for example the fountain that works only by beer, the self-portrait that tans the observer, the chewing gum chewed and photographed as if it were a great informal sculpture.His re-cycling of objects is a curious one, carried out with distinguished nonchalance with a total lack of care for the finishing touch and for this very reason, highly refined.
In a recent exhibition in Bologna (Entr'acte 2002) in the former premises of Telecom M.M. placed two tables in the reception room, on one of them he set a tape deck on the other a loud speaker from which you could hear the recorded phrases "hello Zucchi?"-" No, you've got the wrong number". An oscilloscope traces the graphic of the audio signal, underlying the contrast between the apparent scientific look of the device and the evident stupidity of what was going on.On the occasion of the exhibition "Excerpts" at Lubjana Scuk gallery, M.M. presented the installation "Forma mentis" (2002) composed of a couple of 3D graphics of two abstract objects, under which he placed two sculptures realized following the graphic project but using ordinary supermarket cardboards. The result was a curious contrast between the impeccable formal model and its real second-rate and sham version, perhaps a contemporary Forma mentis with all the distance between self-illusion and reality.