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1925 Milan, Italy - 2003 Turin, Italy. Known for: Mixed-media abstraction, light installations.
Mario Merz was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz. Born in Milan, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the Giustizia e Libertà... Read full biography
Mario Merz was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz. Born in Milan, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the Giustizia e Libertà antifascist group. He experimented with a continuous graphic stroke-not removing his pencil point from the... Read full biography
Mario Merz was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz. Born in Milan, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the Giustizia e Libertà antifascist group. He experimented with a continuous graphic stroke-not removing his pencil point from the paper. He explored the relationship between nature and the subject, until he had his first exhibitions in the intellectually incendiary context of Turin in the 1950s, a cultural climate fed by such... Read full biography
Mario Merz was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz. Born in Milan, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the Giustizia e Libertà antifascist group. He experimented with a continuous graphic stroke-not removing his pencil point from the paper. He explored the relationship between nature and the subject, until he had his first exhibitions in the intellectually incendiary context of Turin in the 1950s, a cultural climate fed by such writers as Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini, and Ezra Pound. He met Marisa Merz during his studies in Turin in the 1950s. They were associated with the development of Arte Povera*, and they were both influenced by each other's works. He died at Turin in... Read full biography
Mario Merz was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz. Born in Milan, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the Giustizia e Libertà antifascist group. He experimented with a continuous graphic stroke-not removing his pencil point from the paper. He explored the relationship between nature and the subject, until he had his first exhibitions in the intellectually incendiary context of Turin in the 1950s, a cultural climate fed by such writers as Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini, and Ezra Pound. He met Marisa Merz during his studies in Turin in the 1950s. They were associated with the development of Arte Povera*, and they were both influenced by each other's works. He died at Turin in 2003. Merz discarded the subjectivitiy of abstract expressionism* in favor of opening art to exterior space: a seed... Read full biography
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