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Mario Merz

(Italian, 1925–2003)

Mario Merz

Cone in space, 1981

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Mario Merz

Untitled , 1983

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Mario Merz

Untitled , 1998

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Mario Merz

Objet cache toi , 1968

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Mario Merz

Il legno formato , 1983

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Biography

Timeline

1925: Born in Milan, Italy
2003: Died.

Exhibitions

2012 - 2013: Mario Merz Exhibitions in 2013:
Mario Merz – Arnulf Rainer: Deep Wide [Fragments], Arnulf Rainer Museum, Baden bei Wien, Austria
2010 - 2011: Mario Merz Exhibitions in 2011:
Mario Merz: What Is to Be Done?, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, July 28–October 30, 2011. Traveled: Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
2009 - 2010: Mario Merz Exhibitions in 2010:
Mario Merz: Che cos'è una casa?, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy,/br> Mario Merz: Pageantry of Painting / Corteo della Pittura, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
2009: Silences, MAMCS, Strasbourg, France
: Wall Works (Giovanni Anselmo, Daniel Buren, Lawrence Carroll, Mario Merz, Felice Varini, Lawrence Weiner), Buchmann Lugano, Agra/ Lugano
: 1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
: 15 Years of Collecting - Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
2008 - 2009: Interior/Exterior (with Zaha Hadid), Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
: Sprovieri Progetti, London, UK (solo)
: 16th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
: Museums in the 21st century, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
: Buchmann Lugano, Agra / Lugano, Switzerland
2008: Zerbrechliche Schönheit. Glas im Blick der Kunst, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
: Red Sky, Luhring Augustine, New York
: Disegni, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)
: ZC Collections '07, Zone: Chelsea Centre for the Arts, New York
: Des Mondes Perdus, Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
: Concept: Photography-Dialogues & Attitudes, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Ludwig
: Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy (solo)
: Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
: Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
: Sammlung Marzona, SMB Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
: Mario Merz, Salvatore + Carline Ala, Milan, Italy (solo)
2007: Mario Merz: The Magnolia Table, Sperone Westwater, New York (solo)
: Buchmann Galerie Berlin, Berlin (solo)
2006: Mario Merz: 8-5-3, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Buchmann Lugano, Agra/Lugano, Switzerland
: Galerie Mit Bleistift Fischer, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf
: Sol Lewitt/Mario Merz, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
: Im Anfang war das Wort, Langenscheidt KG, Munich, Germany
: Wrestle, CCS Bard /Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
: Sol Lewitt/Mario Merz, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
: Castello Di Rivoli, Fondazione Torino Musei, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy (solo)
: Tucci Russo Gallery, Torre Pellice, Turin, Italy
: Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
2005: Arte Povera, Galerie Di Meo, Paris, France
: ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004: Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
: Tucci Russo Gallery, Torre Pellice, Turin, Italy
: In Memoriam, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Gremany (solo)
2003: Galerie Tschudi, Chelsa Madalena, Zuoz/Engadin (solo)
: Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
2001: Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy (solo)
2000: La Luce di Volta: an installation by Mario Merz, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy (solo)
: Sol Lewitt/Mario Merz: l'exotisme sans partage, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1999: Fundaçao de Serralves, Porto
Christian Stein Gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)
: 100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
: Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
1998: Artecitta. 11 Artisti per il Passante Ferroviario di Torino, Turin, Italy
: Arte Italiana 1945-95. Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Yonoga City Museum of Art. Tottori; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
: Skulpturen-Museum Glaskasten Marl, Germany (solo)
: 47th Biennial of Venice, Future, Present, Past, Venice, Italy, catalogue
1997: Ausgestellt-Vorgestellt III, Skulpturen-Museum Glaskasten Marl, Germany (solo)
: Notfalls leben wir auch ohne Herz, Kunsthalle Wien, Sammlung Speck
1996 - 1997: Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen, Germany (solo)
1996: Anthony d'Offay, London
Der Iglo: Idee und Installation, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany
Christian Stein Gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)
1995 - 1996: Dum u Zvonu, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
1995: Vera Van Laer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
1990: Museo Comunale D'Arte Moderna Ascona, Italy (solo)
: Mario Merz, Il Centro per l'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci Prato, Italy (solo)
1989: Mario Merz: A Retrospective, Guggenheim Museum, New York (solo)
1985: Kunsthaus Zurich Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1980: Whitechapel Art Gallery London, UK (solo)
1978: Tucci Russo Gallery, Torre Pellice, Turin, Italy (solo)
: Dans L’Oeil du Critique Bernard Lamarche-Vadel et les Artistes, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
: If we could imagine, Glenstone, Alcoa, Tennessee
: Orientamento, Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta, Italy

Public Collections

: Dr. Nils Forsblom Collection, California

Literature

2013: Anni '70. Arte a Roma (exhibition catalouge). Rome: Palazzo delle esposizioni, 2013; Mario Merz – Arnulf Rainer: Deep Wide [Fragments] (exhibition catalogue). Baden bei Wien: Arnulf Rainer Museum, 2013; When Attitudes Become Form. Bern 1969 / Venice 2013 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Germano Celant, Thomas Demand, Rem Koolhaus, Harald Szeemann. Milan: Fondazione Prada; Ca' Corner della Regina
2012: Art and Press (exhibition catalogue). Bonn and Cologne: Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V.; Wienand, 2012; Arte Povera. The Great Awakening (exhibition catalogue). Ostfildern: Basel: Cantz Verlag, 2012; Arte Povera aus der Sammlung des Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (exhibition catalogue). Text by Friedemann Malsch. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2012; Shock of the News (exhibition catalogue). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2012.
2011: Arte Povera 2011 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Germano Celant. Milan: Electa, 2011. (Note: Published on the occasion of exhibitions held in: Bari, Bologna, Milan, Naples, Rivoli, Rome, and Turin in 2011–2012.); Eroi (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Danilo Eccher. Turin and New York: Allemandi & C., 2011; I hate Paul Klee. Works on Paper and Artist's Book from the Speck Collection (exhibition catalogue). Düren, Germany: Leopold Hoesch Museum & Papiermuseum, , 2011; Mario Merz: What Is to Be Done? (exhibition catalogue). Leeds: Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds 2011.
2010: CHE FARE? Arte povera - The historic years (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Friedemann Malsch, Valentina Pero et al. Heidelberg : Kehrer Verlag, 2010; Entre glace et neige (exhition catalogue). Aosta: Centre Saint-Bénin, 2010; Ergo, materia. Arte povera (exhibition catalogue). Mexico City: MUAC - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2010; L'Informale in Piemonte (exhibition catalogue). Alessandria: Galleria Carlo Carrà, Palazzo Guasco, 2010; Pagine da un bestiario fantastico (exhibition catalogue). Modena: Galleria Civica,.2010; Mario Merz: Pageantry of Painting / Corteo della Pittura (exhibition catalogue). Turin: Fondazione Merz, 2010; Pagine da un bestiario fantastico: Disegno Italiano nel XX e XXI secolo (exhibition catalogue). Modena: Galleria Civica di Modena, 2010; 'Quali cose siamo'. III Triennale Design Museum (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Electa, 2010; With a Probability of Being Seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer: Archives of an Attitude (exhibition catalogue) Barcelona, Kleve, Dusseldorf: MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Museum Kurhaus, Richter Verlag, 2011.
1997: 'Epicenter Ljubljana', Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, 1997, p. 35
: Catalogue 'Ausgestellt-Vorgestellt III', Marl, 1997, images p. 11-15 and 19
1996: Catalogue 'Mario Merz', Dum u Zvonu, Prague, 1996, image p. 8

Mario Merz

(Italian, 1925–2003)

Mario Merz

Mario Merz

Mario Merz

Mario Merz

Mario Merz

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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