Homage to Jack Kerouac, 1993

two elements, red concrete, 400x900x40 cm each
Pico Boulevard – Neilson Way/Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, California

“In these California sculptures of the 1990’s, the combination in Staccioli’s work of the strong presence of the “sign”, the human materiality of the object, and the freedom of the imagination involved was increasingly evident. In these works, the large size remains free from rhetorical monumentalism Thanks to the slight shifting of the axis of the form and of the significance, in the active suspension of the sculpture.”

Francesca Pola, Mauro Staccioli in California, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, 2002, p.82