Tag: materiality

• Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism

  5 October 2016

  News, Publications

  Joseph Beuys, materiality, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Robert Smithson, Sculpture, Sculpture and Photography, Yayoi Kusama

  I am thrilled to announce that my first monograph, Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism, will be published in December by Routledge. The book, based on my doctoral dissertation, is structured around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized in Italy between 1966 and 1972: Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Newspaper Sphere (Sfera di giornali), Robert Smithson’s…

• Destroy the Picture. Create the Object.

  5 April 2013

  exhibitions

  Chicago, Destroy the Picture, materiality, MCA, painting as object, Shozo Shimamoto

  Painting is something I rarely think about, or rather is an area of art production that I admire from a distance; having little interest in the issues that most commonly dominate its discussion – image, representation, flatness, etc. This is a gross oversimplification and no doubt a sign of medium narrow-mindedness on my part, but…