Mario Merz / 987
MERZ Mario (Milano 1925 - Torino 2003)
Napoli, Lucio Amelio, [Printer: senza indicazione dello stampatore], 1976 [November], 20,6x14,7 cm., softcover, pp. [40], cover with title printed in red on a white back- ground. Artist’s book entirely printed in red and black with texts, signs and numbers arranged vertically and horizontally which obsessively repeat a series of terms and concepts attributable to the idea of ownership and whose meaning can be understood by continuously rotating the book by 90 degrees. Edition of 987 numbered copies. Copy unnumbered.
Bibliography: Dematteis - Maffei 1998: pag. 163, n. 1.731; Lailach 2005: pag. 142; Maffei 2007: pag. 110.
MERZ Mario (Milano 1925 - Torino 2003)
Napoli, Lucio Amelio, [Printer: senza indicazione dello stampatore], 1976 [November], 20,6x14,7 cm., softcover, pp. [40], cover with title printed in red on a white back- ground. Artist’s book entirely printed in red and black with texts, signs and numbers arranged vertically and horizontally which obsessively repeat a series of terms and concepts attributable to the idea of ownership and whose meaning can be understood by continuously rotating the book by 90 degrees. Edition of 987 numbered copies. Copy unnumbered.
Bibliography: Dematteis - Maffei 1998: pag. 163, n. 1.731; Lailach 2005: pag. 142; Maffei 2007: pag. 110.
MERZ Mario (Milano 1925 - Torino 2003)
Napoli, Lucio Amelio, [Printer: senza indicazione dello stampatore], 1976 [November], 20,6x14,7 cm., softcover, pp. [40], cover with title printed in red on a white back- ground. Artist’s book entirely printed in red and black with texts, signs and numbers arranged vertically and horizontally which obsessively repeat a series of terms and concepts attributable to the idea of ownership and whose meaning can be understood by continuously rotating the book by 90 degrees. Edition of 987 numbered copies. Copy unnumbered.
Bibliography: Dematteis - Maffei 1998: pag. 163, n. 1.731; Lailach 2005: pag. 142; Maffei 2007: pag. 110.
“Dall’incontro tra due strordinarie personalità, l’artista Merz e il galleri- sta-editore Lucio Amelio, scaturisce un libro in cui la sfrontatezza visuale è accentuata da un uso prorompente del rosso e del nero, colori che spesso ricorrono nei libri di Merz. La scrittura e il disegno, senza gerarchie, si rincorrono tra le pagine occupandone l’intero spazio visivo dopo aver esautorato ogni altro elemento costitutivo del libro (frontespizio, indice, ecc.) e relegato persino il nome dell’autore al colophon” (Giorgio Maffei).
