For the work that opens his first public solo exhibition, Postmodern, at the GCAC in Monfalcone (GO), Mastrovito recovers a modus operandi devised by Felix Gonzalez-Torres with his “stacks of paper,” in which the viewer is invited to take one or more sheets from a pile of paper that is continuously replenished at the end of each exhibition day.
Thus, the exhibition map is printed in thousands of copies and stacked on the floor at the entrance to the first room: viewers are invited to take one to better understand the exhibition. At the same time, taking advantage of the inverted “J” shape of the gallery reproduced on the map, Mastrovito inserts another, more subtle reference to another of the artists invited to the exhibition, Pablo Picasso: by adding a few small letters around the J, the artist forms the words “Ma Jolie,” echoing the inscription made by Picasso at the bottom of one of his most famous portraits from his analytical cubist period. It is thought to be Mastrovito's tribute to his girlfriend at the time.