Mattia Cuttini (Italian, b. 1979) works across analog, digital and sound media to create abstract compositions.,He makes paintings with handmade wooden rubber stamps inked in china ink, folding and layering the paper into pieces he calls “Time Foldables”.He also produces AI-assisted generative workand lives and works in Udine, Italy.
Born in the Friuli region of Italy, Cuttini studied electronics and worked in the field for about ten years. He then reinvented himself as a designer.He started working in design around 1999, launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2017, and began making crypto art in 2018.His early visual work grew out of manipulating drawings and images on photocopy machines at his day job. He connects the technique to his father's work repairing copiers. He also played keyboards in local bands and later worked in sound design and performance art.
In November 2020 Cuttini completed a month-long digital residency at Playform, producing the twelve-work Defined Undefined collection.The same AI platform underpinned Yellow Pulsing Map, a 2021 video work combining GPS-like forms with a storm recording, minted as a single edition on June 21, 2021.Alongside this digital work, Cuttini continued a rubber stamp practice that in 2020 included Out of Grid and ACT2, both departures from the orthogonal grid of his earlier stamped compositions. In November and December 2025 he made Accumulation Plans, a series of eight china ink rubberstamp drawings on paper. The series builds an accumulation of ink on the paper through repeated, manual stamping. It replaces profit with the “sedimentation of gesture”, echoing the financial capital accumulation plans referenced in its title.
Cuttini's work was included in Fakewhale's “RIP HEN IRL” exhibition honoring the closed Tezos NFT platform Hic et Nunc, held at Valuart Gallery in Lugano-Paradiso on December 14, 2021.In November 2023 he held his first solo show at Nft Factory in Paris, opening with a vernissage titled “Pixelage” and running from November 9 to 18.
