It’s hard tofind a painter who’s more of a painter than Mattia Moreni. For him, painting is everything, and that’s why at times ti slips into the background in the face of what everyone sees first: a Po valley madness in the end familiar to us all, like the madness that goes from Pupi Avati to Federico Fellini, authors for whom, ni turn, cinema is everything. It’s the tale of madness that all beholders want to feel when they look at a picture, and Moreni keeps them happy: it’s as fi he was saying, “Im’ mad, look at my madness through my pictures, make sure you look at them though!”. […]

Marco Meneguzzo, Mattia Moreni. From Landscape to Computer. Paintings ’50 /’90, text in the catalog