"... Mr. Matessi's heroes have been living and traveling for two thousand years. Someone has condemned them to immortality..."

Dusan Kovacevic

"The overall aesthetics refer to archaic sculpture... Matessi's heroes, like their ancient ancestors, live at a height of existential intensity that is extremely dangerous, where joy and sorrow melt in the same metal. This is hubris, that is, their precise knowledge, their tragic quality."

G. Pefanis, Nea Estia magazine, issue 1677, 1997