Museo Leonardiano, Castello Conti Guidi, Sala Solidi Geometrici
07 October 2016 - 11 December 2016
07 October 2016 - 11 December 2016
THE SPIRAL APPEARS, 1990
Mario Merz at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum
The event is the prologue to the inaugural exhibition THE END OF THE WORLD by Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art in Prato
The work by Mario Merz, The spiral appears presented at the Leonardo Da Vinci Museum, was made for his solo show at the Centro Pecci entitled Space is curved or straight (1990) as a development of a project conceived 20 years earlier for the Museum Haus Lange of Krefeld, designed by Mies van der Rohe, and published in an artist’s book (Fibonacci 1202 Mario Merz 1970, Sperone, Turin 1970), a project which aimed to reach beyond the physical limits of the museum building to incorporate it in a single large spiral.
In the artist’s arrangement, the spiral form is suggested by the curving movement of the elements which compose it, setting up a new dynamic relationship with space, encountering and passing over the wall with the acceleration of its energy.
INAUGURATION
Friday 7th October 2016, 6 pm
Room of the “geometrical solids” in the Conti Guidi Castle
The image of the spiral was present in various forms in Merz’s work right from his expressionist painting beginnings. It visualises the numerical series discovered in 1202 by the mathematician Leonardo da Pisa, known as Fibonacci, according to which, by proceeding from 1 to infinity, each figure is the result of the sum of the two previous ones (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 …). Merz adopts the series as a symbol of the vital intrinsic energy of matter and of natural growth.
In the artist’s arrangement, the spiral form is suggested by the curving movement of the elements which compose it, setting up a new dynamic relationship with space, encountering and passing over the wall with the acceleration of its energy.
INAUGURATION
Friday 7th October 2016, 6 pm
Room of the “geometrical solids” in the Conti Guidi Castle
The 'work' is visible at the end of the exhibition route inside the sturdy tower of Conti Guidi Castle, which contains the models of the “geometrical solids” based on the drawings which Leonardo made for the treatise of the mathematician Luca Pacioli, De Divina Proportione.
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