Marisa Merz passed away last Friday at the age of 93.
The Italian artist was the only woman in the Arte Povera movement that began in the late 1960s.
Quite discrete, she however was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and a big retrospective started in 2017 at the The Hammer Museum, The Sky Is a Great Space and moved to New York, Los Angeles, Saltzburg, Austria and Porto (why not Paris ?).
I like her work of remarkable finesse and poetry.
I particularly like all her sculptureMarisa Merz passed away last Friday at the age of 93.
The Italian artist was the only woman in the Arte Povera movement that began in the late 1960s.
Quite discrete, she however was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and a big retrospective started in 2017 at the The Hammer Museum, The Sky Is a Great Space and moved to New York, Los Angeles, Saltzburg, Austria and Porto (why not Paris ?).
I like her work of remarkable finesse and poetry.
I particularly like all her sculptures made of delicate meshes.
I bind her work to Eva Hesse's, between drawings, sculptures and sensual installations.
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| Marisa Merz, Untitled, 1979 |
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| Marisa Merz : The Sky is a Great Space |
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| Marisa Merz : The Sky is a Great Space, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art Photo : Filipe Braga |
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