The Epigraphic Museum presented the exhibition of Matteo Fraterno, The Matter of Myth, from 19-12-2024 to 11-04-2025.

Using the technique of frottage and with the Museum’s permission, the artist reproduced on paper the surface of 29 ancient Greek inscriptions, most of which are located in the museum’s courtyard. This was done in 15 days, in the autumn of 2023, as part of a creative residency programme aimed at tracing our cultural heritage.

The curator of the exhibition, Katerina Koskina, (Dr. Art History-Museologist) in the extensive text of the bilingual (Greek-Italian) catalogue points out the main axes of Fraterno’s work: ‘The Matter of Myth evolves into a project that develops and branches out. Perhaps, it is the result of the freezing of physical and visual communication during the pandemic, when digital communication spread worldwide and with great speed…What it wants to reveal is the trace of human presence, intellect and art inscribed in the matter that ensures the continuity or at least the encounter between then and now. In these works, communication with man can only take place through the objects he left behind.”

A catalogue of intercultural dialogue, rare artistic innovation and finally the highlighting of the elements-letters of language as the basic cores of human intellect.