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Item Number: 136189
Title: MARIO MERZ : Citta irreale
Author: Pietromarchi, Bartolomeo
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788857229188
Description: Milano: Skira, 2015. 28cm., pbk., 104pp., 72 illus. Exhibition held at Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venezia. Italian-English text. Summary: Mario Merz – Città Irreale [Unreal City] takes place from 8th May until 20th September, 2015, in conjunction with the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and with Milan Expo 2015. The exhibition has been sponsored by Giovanna Damiani, former Superintendent for the Historic and Artistic Heritage of Venice and for the Museums of the city of Venice and the municipalities of the Gronda lagunare (the area between the lagoon and the mainland), during her tenure in Venice, and it is curated by Bartholomew Pietromarchi, in collaboration with the Merz Foundation and organized by MondoMostre. It is the first exhibition of Merz’s work to be held in any public institution in Italy since the artist’s death and since the major retrospective of his work organised in 2005 by Castello di Rivoli, GAM and the Merz Foundation (Turin), and it brings contemporary art to the new spaces of the great Gallerie dell’Accademia for the first time. The exhibition will have a particular focus on exploring the issue of space in relation to Merz’s artistic research, as it has developed over time: from individual everyday objects to the dimensions of the space one inhabits and so to the idea of habitats, from our collective and urban space up to space on a cosmic and cosmological scale. The individual perspective expands and broadens out in his work to become a collective one, both natural and artificial, and Merz’s works become a symbol of the negotiation [constantly in play] between our living experience and our natural and architectural context. The works on display reveal an ethical and poetic tension, suggesting the idea of a shared and participatory society in which the balance between nature and culture, tradition and innovation, finds its synthesis in the energy of these constantly clashing elements.
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