Mario Merz - Unique Set with original drawing

1980

An exceptional, museum-quality presentation by Mario Merz, offering a rare glimpse into one of his most striking installations.

The framed composition contains :

An original drawing by Mario Merz in black felt-tip pen, depicting the towering, conical structure “Terra grigia, terra chiusa, 1980”, the installation in the photo on the left. 

A personally hand-signed page from the Kunsthalle Bern exhibition catalogue, with a black-and-white photograph of the actual installation “Terra grigia, terra chiusa, 1980”. 

This unique combination of signed catalogue page and original drawing is a highly collectible piece of Arte Povera history.

The work is professionally framed to museum standards, within a custom-made white acid-free passe-partout, in a handcrafted black wooden frame with Plexiglas® Optical HC, offering UV protection, scratch resistance, and minimal reflection. 
Size framed : approx. 44 x 54 cm 

Mario Merz (1925–2003) was one of the leading figures of the Arte Povera movement, an avant-garde group in 1960s and 70s Italy that radically redefined sculpture and installation art. Rejecting traditional “precious” materials, Merz worked with glass, stone, wax, metal, branches, and neon light. His art often explored cycles of nature, the passage of time, and the Fibonacci sequence — a mathematical ratio he saw as a universal principle connecting art, nature, and architecture. His igloo structures and luminous installations are celebrated worldwide as poetic meditations on survival, growth, and the human relationship with the environment.