Artworks by Marisa Merz at Richard Saltoun Gallery on artnet

Marisa Merz

(Italian, 1926–2019)

Marisa Merz

Untitled , 2013

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Marisa Merz

Untitled , 2013

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Biography

Timeline

1931: Born in Torino, Italy
2001: Biennale di Venezia Award for lifetime achievement
2013: Biennale di Venezia Golden Lion
: Lives and works in Torino, Italy

Exhibitions

2018: The Sky Is a Great Space, curated by Connie Butler, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg (solo)
: The Sky Is a Great Space, curated by Connie Butler, Museu de Serralves, Porto (solo)
2017: È solo un inizio. 1968, Curated by Ester Coen, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma, Roma
: Metropolitan Museum New York (solo)
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (solo)
2016: Mario e Marisa Merz, Macro, Roma (solo)
: Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo show)
2015: TUTTOVERO, Fondazione Merz and Castello di Rivoli, Torino
: Looking Back: The Eighth White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
2014: Bernier-Eliades Gallery. Athens
2013: Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/The Enciclopedic Palace, curated by Massimiliano Giorni, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
: Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2012: Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
: Disegnare disegnare ridisegnare il pensiero immagine che cammina, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy (solo)
: Galleria Christian Stein, Milano, Italy (solo)
: Arte Povera International a cura di Germano Celant e Beatrice Merz, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
2011: Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Marisa Merz: non corrisponde eppur fiorisce, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia, Italy (solo)
2010: Che fare? Kunstmuseum, Liechtenstein
: Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Centre internationale d’art et du paysage, Ile de Vassivière, France (solo)
2009: “Visage,” New Galerie de France, Paris, France
: “Orientamento,” Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta, Italy
2008: “Revolutions – Forms that Turn”, Biennale of Sydney
: Galleria Christian Stein, Milano, Italy (solo)
2007: Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli (solo)
: “Makers and Modelers,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
2006: Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
: "Wrestle," CCS Bard /Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2004: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
2003: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)
2002: Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (solo)
: Biennale di Venice, Venice
2001: “Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972,” Tate Modern, London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, DC
1998: Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, “Marisa Merz, Domenico Bianchi”
: Villa delle Rose, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (solo)
1996: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (solo)
1995: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, "Marisa Merz" (solo)
: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, “Die italienische Metamorphose, 1943-1968”
: Museé National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (solo)
: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
1994: Guggenheim Museum, New York, "The Italian Metamorphosis,1943-1968"
1993: Gallery Christian Stein, Milan (solo)
1989: Messehallen, Cologne, "Bilderstreit"
: Deichtorhallen Hamburg, "Einleuchten"
1988: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, "Zeitlos"
: Biennale di Venice, Venice
1987: Museé Saint Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon, "Octobre des Arts"
1986: Gallery Christian Stein, Turin, "Fideliter, 1966-1986" Arnhem, "Sonsbeek"
1985: Palazio Velazques, Palazio de cristal, Madrid, "Del arte povera a 1985" P.S.1., P.S.1., New York, "The KNOT Arte Povera at P.S.1"
: Jean and Karin Bernier Gallery, Athens (solo)
1984: Gallery Albert Baronian, Bruxelles
: Castello di Rivoli, Turin, "Ouverture/Arte Contemporanea" Mole Antonelliana, Turin, "Coerenza in coerenza: dall'Arte Povera al 1984"
1982: Kassel, "Documenta 7"
1981: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, "Identité Italienne: l'art en Italie depuis 1959"
1980: Geneva, "Chambres d'Amis"
: Gallery Tucci Russo, Turin (solo)
1979: Jean and Karin Bernier Gallery, Athens (solo)
: Castello Colonna, Genezzano, "Le stanze"
1978: Gallery Franco Toselli (with Mario Merz), Milan
1976: Gallery Franz Paludetto- LP220, Turin, "Autori vari per Europa-America"
1975: Gallery l'Attico, Rome (solo)
: Mostra per le fabbriche occupate, Gallery Multipli, Turin
1974: Gallery Franco Toselli (with Mario Merz), Milan
1970: III Biennale della Pittura Giovane, Museo Civico, Bologna, "Gennaio 70"
1969: Gallery l'Attico, Rome (solo)
: Aeroporto di Ciampino, Rome
1967: Piper Club, Turin
: Gallery Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin (solo)

Literature

2008: Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, 2008 Biennale of Syney: Revolutions-Forms That Turn, Thames & Hudsion, Sydney.
: I Like Your Music I Love Your Music, MUSAC, 2008
: This is Not to be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2008
: Volume 2 of the MUSAC Collection, MUSAC, 2008
2007: New Museum Paper, New Museum, 2007
: Guggenheim Collection: 1940 to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, 2007
: Blind Date, Deutsche Bank Kunst, 2007
: Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2007
: Panicelli, Ida, “Marisa Merz, Madre,” ARTFORUM, Summer 2007, pg. 516
: Tomassoni, Italo, Anni Settanta: Artisti italiani fra cronaca e mito, Editori Laterza, Bari, Italy
: “Città Natura”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
1997: “Arte Italiana Ultimi Quarant’anni. I Materiali”, Galleria d’arte Moderna, Bologne
1995: “Die Italienische Metamorphose 1943-1968”, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
: Solo Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Dieter Schwarz, Winterthur, Kunstmuseum
1994: Solo Exhibition, exhibition catalogue by Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
: “Italiana. From Arte povera to Transavanguardia”, exhibition catalogue, Nicaf, Yokohama
: “The Italian Metamorphosis 1943-1968”, exhibition catalogue, Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Corgnati, Martina; Poli, Francesco, “Dizionario d’Arte Contemporanea”, Milan, Italy
1993: “In viaggion verso Citera”, exhibition catalogue, Casinò d’Inverno, Venice
1992: “La Collection M.me Christian Stein: Un regard sur l’art Italien”, exhibition catalogue by Le Nouveau Musée, Lyon
: “Avanguardie in Piemonte 1960-1990”, exhibition catalogue by Palazzo Cuttica, Alessandria
: Semin, Didier, “L’Arte povera”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
1991: “Ottanta Novanta”, exhibition catalogue by Monastero die Benedettini, Montreal, Canada
: Kurzmeyer, Roman, “Visionare Schweiz”, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthaus, Zürich

Marisa Merz

(Italian, 1926–2019)

Marisa Merz

Marisa Merz

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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