Marisa Merz
Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space
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This book accompanied the exhibition Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space in 2017, published by the Hammer Museum/Metropolitan Museum of Art: Los Angeles/New York:
Bringing together five decades of work, this exhibition explores the prodigious talent and influence of Merz’s understudied body of work. The survey was the first retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work in the United States, bringing together five decades of work–from her early, Arte Povera experiments with non-traditional art materials and processes; to the enigmatic heads and faces she created in the 1980s and 1990s; to mid- and late-career installations that balance intimacy with impressive scale. The exhibition explored the prodigious talent and influence of Merz’s understudied body of work.
Although she was included in important presentations of Arte Povera, Merz has remained a marginal figure even within that context. As the sole female protagonist of the movement and one of the few Italian women to exhibit in major venues internationally, Merz’s challenging and evocative body of work, marked by great variety in scale and material, is inflected by sexual and cultural difference. Ultimately, Merz’s work is as much a response to her own experience as it is to the art of her contemporaries and exists in the intersection of art and life that has become so central to contemporary practice.
Hardcover
English
320 pages
10.75 × 8.75 inches
ISBN 978-3-7913-5567-2
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