Archivio Staccioli: 1971-1988

Caterina Martinelli

The main objective of the research project at the Mauro Staccioli Archive was to digitize the documentary material preserved there. Having selected the years from 1971 to 1988, it included the drafting of an analytical inventory of the archival documentation pertaining to the works created in these two decades and the construction of an Integrated Research Infrastructure that would guarantee its digital fruition. Consistent with the artistic path of Mauro Staccioli, who recognizes himself as a sculptor and customizes his plastic language from the late 1960s but achieves full awareness of his relationship to landscape and nature during the 1980s, all the works belonging to the first and second decade of his activity have been selected: this will allow the scholar to know not only the major works and the decisive formal and linguistic change that plastic art undergoes over the course of these two decades, but above all the connections and relationships between the best-known interventions and the minor works. In fact, fostering the construction of cross-readings and broader and more punctual analyses constitutes one of the main objectives of the project; these are thus made feasible through links that create connections and comparisons in the development of a search for keywords, places, events, people, entities, materials, and works. This is then accompanied by a detailed description of the documentary materials, which are fundamental to the art-historical reconstruction of the work and the situational dimension in which it fits. In fact, this analytical inventory has the additional purpose of providing the user with in-depth documentation that enables, even for the best-known projects, a thorough and detailed understanding of the work along with its historical and artistic context.
7423 archival units were digitized and 158 works, 152 events, 32 plastic and pictorial materials, 80 places, 29 institutions, and 500 people were inventoried. These data are accessible, as of October 2023, at the link:
https://staccioli.biblhertz.it/