In 2013 she was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale.

Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space Merz’s “Living Sculpture” (1966) and “Untitled” (1976), at the Met Breuer.

Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space will bring together five decades of work to explore Merz’s prodigious talent and influence. Italian artist reaches great heights at Met Breuer show "Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space" is the artist's first U.S. retrospective, celebrating over five decades of work. Lucia Re, “The Mark on the Wall, Marisa Merz and a History of Women in Post-War Italy,” Marisa Merz, The Sky is a Great Space (Prestel, Munich, London, New … The blatant poetry and phenomenological politics of the Arte Povera group in post-World War II Italy offered a corrective to what art historian Jaleh Mansoor has termed “Marshall Plan Modernism 1” or the encroachment of hyper-realized American financial and cultural capital into war-torn Europe. Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space is organized by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bringing together fifty years of painting, sculpture, and installations from the celebrated Italian artist Marisa Merz, this monograph accompanies a major US retrospective of her work.This generously illustrated book offers readers the chance to appreciate the range of works by Marisa Merz… Marisa Merz (23 May 1926 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian artist and sculptor. The exhibition will feature her early experiments with nontraditional art materials and processes, her mid-career installations that balance intimacy with impressive scale, and the enigmatic portrait heads she created after 1975. "Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Place" is the first major retrospective in the United States of works by Italian painter, sculptor, and installation artist Marisa Merz, … Art lovers in New York City are crowding to see a stunning new exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Marisa Merz, the only female protagonist of the Arte Povera movement in the 1960s. NEW YORK — Italian artist Marisa Merz’s (b. Today, Merz is still at work, in … ¿Te imaginas que los objetos que te rodearon en la infancia, están ahora en un … Art lovers in New York City are crowding to see a stunning new exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Marisa Merz, the only female protagonist of the Arte Povera movement in the 1960s. As the sole female protagonist, her challenging and evocative body of work, marked by great variety in scale and material, is inflected by sexual and cultural difference. She lived and worked in Turin, Italy. 12Now 86 years old, Marisa Merz is the only woman participant in the outstanding art movement called Arte Povera, a term originated by the Italian critic Germano Celant in a show defining the group, at the Galleria La Bertesca in Genoa in 1967. In the 1960s, Merz was the only female protagonist associated with the radical Arte povera movement. In the Sixties and Seventies, the Merz family, including Marisa and her husband, the remarkable sculptor Mario Merz, and their daughter Beatrice, lived in Turin. ‘Marisa Merz: The Sky is a Great Space’ is curated by Connie Butler, Chief Curator, Hammer Museum, and Ian Alteveer, Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is the first major retrospective survey encompassing five decades of the artist’s work tracing her early experiments in nontraditional art materials to her intricate installations to her enigmatic ceramic heads. This generously illustrated book offers readers the chance to appreciate the full range of works by Marisa Merz, winner of the 2013 Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Biennale. In the mid-1970s, Merz began sculpting a series of small heads – Teste -, which have become emblematic of the artist and her more recent work. 1926) exhibition The Sky is a Great Space at The Met Breuer (January 24 – May 7, 2017) explores her prodigious talent and influence. Photograph by Frances F. Denny for The New Yorker Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space, Met Breuer, New York — a revelatory retrospective This show of the Italian artist’s work brings her out of the shadows Marisa Merz, 'Untitled' Marisa Merz's retrospective "The Sky Is a Great Space” explores her use of daily domestic materials, underscored by gendered inflections. The Hammer Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are partnering on an exhibition of works by the Italian painter, sculptor and installation artist Marisa Merz (born Turin, Italy, 1926), who was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2013 Venice Biennale.