Italy. 1924 - 2014
Abstract painting on plastic
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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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Austria. Born 1929
Abstract painting, prints, photography
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New York. Born 1969
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New York / Germany, Switzerland. 1888 - 1976
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Tree subjects, assemblage-found objects, teaching
Greece, Italy. 1936 - 2017
Found object assemblage, installations, arte povera
Italy. 1929 - 2008
Mixed media work on boards, concrete sculptures
France. Born 1949
Painting and sculpture
Denmark. 1907 - 1993
Painting and sculpture
Italy. 1934 - 2023
Found object sculpture, 'Arte Povera'
Italy. Born 1943
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New York, Rhode Island / England. Born 1967
Abstract text painting, film making
Iran, Islamic Republic of, United States. Born 1955
Painting and sculpture
Born 1956
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Belgium. 1919 - 1997
Figure, genre, circus paintings
New York / Switzerland. Born 1964
Installation sculpture, video
France. 1902 - 1959
Elongated, symbolic figurative sculpture
California / England. Born 1972
Fragmented mixed-media figurative sculpture
Italy. 1935 - 2013
Illustration, caricature and portrait painting
California / Italy. 1926 - 2025
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Italy. 1929 - 2021
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Italy. 1940 - 2019
Non objective painting and sculpture
Italy, Belgium. 1930 - 2017
Monochromatic, geometric design painting, relief surfaces
Italy. 1930 - 2004
Optical illusion painting and sculpture, Dada
Belgium, China. Born 1965
Neo-conceptual painting and sculpture, installation
New York. 1935 - 2024
Minimal expressionist painting of New York skyline, collage-like painting
Germany, Europe. Born 1957
Figure and portrait painting, drawing and sculpture
Massachusetts / Greece, France, England. 1925 - 2019
Kinetic sculpture, mixed media
Italy. 1940 - 1994
Embroidered maps, conceptual mixed-media, found objects
New York, California. Born 1958
Abstraction, whimsical landscape