“[…] in the cockpit of a Trimotor flying at 3000 meters in a bipartite sky: the maudlin light of a greenish mother-of-pearl half-moon and a hemisphere of half clouds lit by long scorpions of gold.

Directly beneath, a river of the most solid silver delivers the estuary of its wriggling eels in a sea of pitch studded with lunar nickel. […]”

Formula by F.T. Marinetti and Fillia, from the Futurist Cookbook (1932)

Mattia Casalegno is an Italian artist working in installations, sculpture and mixed reality.

His multidisciplinary practice is influenced by both post-conceptualism and digital art, and has been defined relational, immersive, and participatory. Casalegno exhibited in numerous international galleries and institutions, among others: MACRO Museum Rome, Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa, Auditorium, Hadrian Temple, RomaEuropa Festival, Sant’Arcangelo dei Teatri, Netmage festival (Italy), Mutek Festival (Canada), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), Chronus Art Center (China), UPDATE Biennial, Cimatics Festival, Nuit Blanche Brussels (Belgium), Optronica Festival (UK), Le Cube Contemporary Art Museum (France), OFFF Festival (Spain), The Satellite Art Fair, AxS Festival, YAA Museum, LACMA in US.

Nominated to the New Technological Art Awards in 2014 and artist in residence at Eyebeam in 2015, he received various grants and fellowships from NEW INC, the Center for Cultural Innovation, Young Italian Artists Network, NYFA, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and the Chronus Art Center, among others. In 2018 he is recipient of the Lumen Prize People’s Choice Award. He is currently adjunct faculty at department of Digital Arts, Pratt Institute in New York, and the Design+Media department at Rhode Island School of Design.