Gladstone Gallery
530 W 21st St
212.206.9300
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Mario Merz, Was Machen?, Courtesy Gladstone Gallery
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Opens Thursday Sep 18, 2008 (5:30–7:30pm)
Sep 18, 2008 – Jan 30, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera ("poor art"), a movement that produced Mario Merz as its leading figure. Merz's igloos, neon lights, Fibonacci sequences, and animal archetypes contribute to pieces seemingly made for itinerant hordes of mystical mathematicians. For Merz, the Fibonacci sequence — a pattern ubiquitous in nature, from reproductive habits to the spacing of leaves on a vine — represents the rational explanation of organic growth. With the glowing neon numbers of the sequence arranged around Gladstone Gallery, Merz suggests the potential continuation of the series — ad infinitum — beyond the exhibition space.
