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Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian
Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian

Living Sculpture

Marisa Merz

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GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

Via Magenta, 31, Turin

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Tracing the origins of Marisa Merz's work is a bit like crossing a boundless territory in which it is difficult, if not impossible, to find certain points of reference or establish boundaries. In the first phase of his work he created installations, mostly of large dimensions, while from the 1980s onwards he preferred small sculptures and works on paper made in pencil and sometimes in pastel and mixed techniques. For his sculptures, he uses ancestral techniques and mainly linked to the female world, such as knitting, which contrasts with the use of unusual or technological materials but always ductile and easily malleable, such as, and it is the case of this work, the aluminum sheet or the copper wire. Living Sculpture is part of the very first works created by the artist in 1966 and exhibited in the gallery of Gian Enzo Sperone the following year: the sheet was cut into strips and assembled with a simple stapler to form tubular shapes of various sizes, collected in groups, they descended from the ceiling without a predetermined order. These works that suggest organic forms borrowed from the animal or plant world, become the metaphor of an endless image; works that could go on indefinitely, multiplying their shape in space, expanding their perception with a play of reflections of light and of shadows caused by the shiny and curved surface of the sheet metal and by modifying its architectural structure.
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Title: Living Sculpture

Author: Marisa Merz

Date: 1966

Technique: Aluminum sheet sewn with staples

Displayed in: GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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