This catalogue was published on the occasion of the first personal show in Italy and within a museum  - the MAMbo - of Nick van Woert, one of the most original voices in the contemporary American art scene. An exclusive interview by the art critic Aniko Berman, accompanied by a rich selection of photographs, highlights the main instances of the artist as the conviction, via his transverse research, that a semantics of materials exists and that every material generates intrinsic value.