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Marisa Merz

Marisa Merz

A powerful yet delicate constructor, Marisa Merz continues to create, even today, intimate and visionary works that manifest a poetic time through the use of natural materials such as wax, water, salt, and clay. These primary elements place the artist in the spirit of Arte Povera, from which she later distanced herself in the 1970s, developing a personal language that combines the craftsmanship of materials like copper with the gestures of the feminine universe, such as knitting. Small, meticulously woven objects capture, in their poetry and grace, a precise balance between art and life, gestures and symbols, materials and signs. The artist's messages are delicately whispered. from works that take on a symbolic force and at the same time receive international recognition (1992, Documenta IX. Kassel; 1994, Centre Pompidou, Paris: 2001, 49th Venice Biennale). The small lead basin, Fontana (2007), isolated on a portion of the floor, is like a generator of life, an evocation of the life cycle, a phenomenological unfolding of life and forms. The water gushes forth, then changes shape to transform into ice and finally vanish with evaporation. It is the sense of natural time that is perceived and which also recalls the time of memory and the most private sensitivity, so much so that seeing in front of his work becomes more like listening.
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