Mario Merz

Sprovieri presents a solo exhibition dedicated to Mario Merz, a central figure of Arte Povera and a leading voice in one of the most radical reflections on space, dwelling, and the relationship between nature and culture in the second half of the twentieth century. At the heart of the exhibition stands La Pianta della Vite nella Sfera Occidentale (1991), one of Merz’s most intense and complex igloos—an in-between work, poised at the threshold of architecture, living organism, and thought.

The igloo—a hemispherical structure measuring three metres in diameter—emerges from a metal framework clad in bundles of wood, held in place by a mesh that follows their irregular inclinations. Among the vegetal fibres surface a metal funnel and a long cylinder of beeswax: silent, almost ritual presences that introduce a different sense of time—slow, archaic. The work is not built through accumulation, but through resting and contact: materials supporting one another, curves receiving planes, stability and tension coexisting.

Free

Mon – Fri 10 am – 6pm