MARIO MERZ
8-5-3, 1985
Metal tubes, glass, clamps, twigs and neon tubes
Diameter of each igloo: 315 inches (800 cm); 196-7/8 inches (500 cm); 118-1/8 inches (300 cm)
Mario Merz was a leading member of the Italian artistic movement Arte Povera, a term introduced in 1967 by the art critic and curator Germano Celant. The movement was marked by an anti-elitist aesthetic that promoted everyday materials in protest of the dehumanising nature of industrialisation and consumer capitalism. Other artists involved in Arte Povera include Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, and Giuseppe Penone.