"Through this exhibition, Andrea Mastrovito talks about man and his desire to find life through death: he revisits the famous novel by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, originally subtitled The Modern Prometheus. Prometheus, the Titan of Greek mythology, is known to have formed from clay and water the Human being and giving him the divine fire stolen from the Gods, for that he was condemned to be tortured and chained on Mount Caucasus, an eagle devouring his liver for eternity. In his drawings, the artist appropriates the myth representing the modern Man, the Modern Prometheus, executed by the fire given once by the Creator. To create his work, the artist incorporates the principles applied by Dr. Frankenstein and transposes them. Although the tracking is a kind of aberration and the result a strange monster, life resumes after death. Andrea Mastrovito gives life to a new edition of the novel linking end to end a page of each of seventy old editions of the novel he has collected, keeping the order of numbering. The page order is respected. Nevertheless, the connection between the pages does not match with the narrative; the book is no more like the original. In fact, a "novel-monster" was born. From construction in destruction were born The Six Sleepers, made of shots cutter, these young people seem to rest before perhaps going back to life. Repeating the actions which were those of Dr. Frankenstein in the cemetery, the artist has collected on each of them a piece of “flesh-paper”. Two video projections depict the “fire” that kills “Modern prometheus”, figure of the drawings, and which here becomes a promising of a new life; a life done by the gestures of everyday life, those that we tirelessly repeat and that all look like."
From the show's press release.