Francesco Matarrese was born in Molfetta, Italy, in 1950. In his early twenties he launched a successful career as Conceptual artist. In 1978, with his famous Telegramma di rifiuto, he began a long artistic silence evolving progressively into an impossible catalogue of non-works, an intense artistic research and a collaboration with Mario Tronti (Centro studi e iniziative per la Riforma dello Stato www.centroriformastato.org)