Andrea Chiampo

𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐕𝐑𝐀 (2025) is the last addition to Andrea Chiampo’s 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐓 collection. Newly commissioned for Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, the work embodies the eternal paradox of life, the tenderness and brutality that coexist within all beings.

In this piece, Mother Nature stands as both womb and witness, giving birth to Good and Evil alike. The placenta metamorphoses into a blind serpent that coils around the mother’s leg, trapping a vulnerable life within itself as a fragile hostage to destiny. She does not kill the serpent but tames it, keeping it close yet distant enough not to be bitten. Her averted gaze speaks not of sorrow but of acceptance — a silent recognition that even cruelty is her creation.

The project is rooted in Chiampo’s mission to unite ancient art-making techniques with modern technology, integrating blockchain as both medium and performative layer within the work, opening a new dialogue between tradition and innovation.

The digital artwork of MATER NATVRA expands the sculpture into an interactive digital experience, becoming a navigable catalogue where viewers can explore the piece from multiple perspectives, allowing them to observe its most intimate details. The making of the sculpture began in the physical world. A model posed for Chiampo over months of observation. The artist translated that corporeal reality into digital matter through his own perception and manual sculpting. It becomes both archive and portal, capturing the journey from human body to artist’s eye to digital form. The final experience is a hybrid relic. A contemporary artwork that honors the old ways of sculpting while embracing the new language of interactive digital media. A tribute to craft, patience, and the enduring entanglement between physical and digital matter. Chiampo refers to this as a “PROOF OF PROCESS”, a declaration of authorship rooted in a disappearing skill and time rather than pure automation.