FA 164a Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Umberto Eco, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz
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If the enemy masses hs forces he loses ground, if he scatters he loses strength, . Interesting relationship with the formal element with the words of the quote. Getting components making different sets of allusions. Industrial sheets of aluminum, wrapping them into cloud like forms. Wrote the name of the rose" a movie way back. The idea is the nature of what it means to make an open work. Open to us to participate in (like neo-concrete art) We are creating a dialogue between the artist and the. Viewer/participant" that has larger consequences than completing the art, especially that it reverberates into the social and political realm. The artist"s role is to get something started, and the viewer continues it. The object is a thing in the larger world, rather than a world the artist creates. The location, and the work and the relation between the two.
