Mauro Staccioli

Mauro Staccioli (Volterra, 1937) is an Italian sculptor.

After the studies at the Art Institute in Volterra, Staccioli starts teaching and in 1968 arrive in Milan at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.

At the end of sixties Staccioli decides to dedicate himself to sculpture. His idea of an art which have to meet people where people live leads him to ideate sculptures for urban places. His sculptures are “marks”, traces of a passage; he wants to affect people who walk usually in a place and prompt to feel that place in a different way. His sculptures are always in a strong relationship with the place where he works.

Since the beginning of the Seventy he choses urban environment and, with sculpture, he tries to give answers to social questions. His linguistic choice is characterized by the coherence, the essential shapes and by the perfect adherence to the setting where he realize his “sculpture-intervention”. He proceeds in a very rigorous way, studying the history and characteristiques of the places where he is called to work. With his sculptures he marks the place, transforming the usual perception of the people who get across it.

Among all his permanent installations: Villa Celle in Santomato of Pistoia (1982); Olympic Park Seul (1988); Djerassi Foundation in Woodside (1987–1991); Museum of Contemporary Art of Seul Kwachon (1990); Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego (1996); Ordino d’Arcalis in Andorra (1991); Munich (1996); Parc Tournay-Solvay in Brussels (1996); Villa Glori in Roma (1997); Schuman roundabout in Brussels (1998); Lapiz building in La Jolla (2003); Chiaopanshan International Sculpture Park in Taiwan (2003); University of Puerto Rico Arecibo (2004); Carrazeda de Ansiães in Portugal (2008); Centre Val St Quentin in Voisins-le-Bretonneux (2008).

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