This fall season continues to bring success as the studio is pleased to announce that Matteo Mauro has been awarded the Special Mention of the VAR Digital Art Award 2025, with the artwork What I think it becomes. Part of the now finished series, Micromegalic Inscriptions, the artwork solidifies Mauro’s continuous research of gestures and the universal human instinct of seeking a way to leave a mark.

As Mauro described to Chiara Canali, “In the early years, I was very focused on the technical aspects, partly due to my mental deformation: I’ve always had an almost scientific and mathematical sensibility. Then, over time, I realized that it wasn’t enough to understand how to make an artwork; I had to understand why I was making it.” Mauro further elaborates on the current direction of his practice, how the Micromegalic Inscriptions serve as evidence on how using technology as a tool in conjunction with the guidance of the artist, a beautiful and unique contemporary artwork comes to life.

As the artist phrases it: “Digital, by itself, creates nothing authentic; it becomes art only when it encounters the artist’s conscience.”. Matteo Mauro Studio now continues the legacy of Micromegalic Inscriptions series with the more stripped down, pure RAW Inscriptions, which “mark a phase of purification, both personal and artistic. After years of layering, of visual and conceptual complexity, I felt the need to return to the original sign. The new inscriptions no longer hide the line beneath the accumulation, but celebrate it. I want the ancestral trace to emerge, that primary gesture shared by all human beings: the desire to leave a mark.”

This recognition marks a meaningful conclusion to The Micromegalic Inscriptions series, reaffirming Matteo Mauro’s dedication to bridging art, technology, and the timeless human impulse to inscribe meaning into the world. The studio looks ahead with renewed inspiration, continuing to explore the boundaries of contemporary creation and digital expression.

Read more about the award and Mauro’s practice, in the beautiful article Matteo Mauro, the line as an original gesture, even through technology, by Chiara Canali: https://www.artuu.it/matteo-mauro-la-linea-come-gesto-originario-anche-attraverso-la-tecnologia/