Mario Merz
Tartarughe veganti, 1997-2000

Mixed media on paper.
150 x 334 cm.
Courtesy of Giorgio Persano.

Using, together or separately, charcoal for the outlines and oil, tempera, enamel and spray-paint, Merz painted several large pictures of animals which he imparted with the dignity of creatures belonging to mythology. Merz’s invented bestiary, imbued with symbolic meanings, included animals such as hawks, crocodiles, iguanas, rhinoceroses, lions, tigers, bisons, geckos, owls and turtles. Through these archetypal images, the artist represented his idea of nature, animistic, sublime and capable of making us glimpse the immensity and the unknown.

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