Mario Merz | "Untitled", 1988 | (for Parkett 15)
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Parkett Vol. 15
Quote from Parkett
“The work of Mario Merz leaves the impression of a compulsive urge toward transcendence. On the one hand, he is himself a kind of Second Coming, considerably less glorious than was anticipated, bringing confirmation of another postponement in the offing, a third and fourth and fifth Coming. On the other hand, he is the last futurist left standing in the wake of a future that has exhausted itself in an orgy of big bangs.”
Jeanne Silverthorne, Parkett No. 15, 1988
”Untitled", 1988 (for Parkett 15)
Etching, sugar lift, drypoint, aquatint
on Hahnemühle 300 g/m2, bound in the magazine,
image size: 16 x 10” (40,8 x 25,5 cm),
printed by Peter Kneubühler, Zurich,
Ed. 100/XXIX, signed and numbered
Read a Parkett text on Mario Merz
Parkett Vol. 15
Quote from Parkett
“The work of Mario Merz leaves the impression of a compulsive urge toward transcendence. On the one hand, he is himself a kind of Second Coming, considerably less glorious than was anticipated, bringing confirmation of another postponement in the offing, a third and fourth and fifth Coming. On the other hand, he is the last futurist left standing in the wake of a future that has exhausted itself in an orgy of big bangs.”
Jeanne Silverthorne, Parkett No. 15, 1988
”Untitled", 1988 (for Parkett 15)
Etching, sugar lift, drypoint, aquatint
on Hahnemühle 300 g/m2, bound in the magazine,
image size: 16 x 10” (40,8 x 25,5 cm),
printed by Peter Kneubühler, Zurich,
Ed. 100/XXIX, signed and numbered
Read a Parkett text on Mario Merz
Parkett Vol. 15
Quote from Parkett
“The work of Mario Merz leaves the impression of a compulsive urge toward transcendence. On the one hand, he is himself a kind of Second Coming, considerably less glorious than was anticipated, bringing confirmation of another postponement in the offing, a third and fourth and fifth Coming. On the other hand, he is the last futurist left standing in the wake of a future that has exhausted itself in an orgy of big bangs.”
Jeanne Silverthorne, Parkett No. 15, 1988
”Untitled", 1988 (for Parkett 15)
Etching, sugar lift, drypoint, aquatint
on Hahnemühle 300 g/m2, bound in the magazine,
image size: 16 x 10” (40,8 x 25,5 cm),
printed by Peter Kneubühler, Zurich,
Ed. 100/XXIX, signed and numbered
Artist Document
This handwritten riddle by Harald Szeeman on Mario Merz' key topic - not a house, not a sculpture, not a picture - is reproduced in Parkett 15, for which Merz made his etching depicting the riddle’s solution.
The riddle’s translation in English:
What is it? I t’s not a house It’s not a sculpture It’s not a picture Pictorial vehicle sometimes Scriptorial vehicle often Facade never It is not merely human warmth in coldness It is not only radiation in warmth It is profane and sacred On the ground it stands, above and inbetween It performs miracles in space, darkness and light Over-all, corner-less What is it?
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Parkett Cover
Mario Merz’s work on the cover of Parkett no. 15
