Figure 1: Untitled (Living Sculpture), (Merz, 1966)
Marisa Merz is a sculptor who focuses on using industrial materials, ranging from copper wire to wax to metal sheeting. In the end of the 1960s, she was a part of a group of artists who began to engage with everyday materials. The piece 'Untitled (Living Sculpture) is a large-scale sculpture that is suspended from the ceiling, made up of twisted tubes of aluminium. What drew me in was not only the scale of the piece but also how the artist approaches materials. Merz's looks into transforming industrial scrap materials into organic forms, taking away any social and narrative context and focusing on the material itself which I draw a relation to in my work. What's also interesting is that this piece has been re-assembled and seen in different forms for the years (Figure 1 and FIgure 2), it is a work that is constantly evolving and changing also to fit the space that it is being presented in (Living Sculpture | The Art Institute of Chicago, n.d.).
Figure 2: He Living Sculptures At The Entrance Of The Marisa Merz Exhibition At The Met Breuer (Courtesy: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art), (Merz, 1966)
References
Images
Figure 1: Merz, M., 1966. Untitled (Living Sculpture). [image] Available at: <https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/merz-untitled-living-sculpture-t12950> [Accessed 16 November 2020].
Figure 2: Merz, M., 1966. He Living Sculptures At The Entrance Of The Marisa Merz Exhibition At The Met Breuer (Courtesy: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art). [image] Available at: <https://www.lavocedinewyork.com/en/arts/2017/02/07/marisa-merzs-great-sky/> [Accessed 16 November 2020].
Website
Living Sculpture | The Art Institute of Chicago, (n.d.) The Art Institute of Chicago, [online] Available at: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/207124/living-sculpture (Accessed 16 November 2020).
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