{"id":1724,"date":"2012-12-16T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2012-12-18T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:22:44","slug":"mario-merz-at-sperone-westwater-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/16\/mario-merz-at-sperone-westwater-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Merz at Sperone Westwater Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1725\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mario_merz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1725\" title=\"Mario Merz, Canti errabondi I, acrylic and oil on canvas with tree branch and beeswax, 1983.\" src=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mario_merz-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Merz, Canti errabondi I, acrylic and oil on canvas with tree branch and beeswax, 1983.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mario_merz-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mario_merz-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mario_merz.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Merz, Canti errabondi I, acrylic and oil on canvas with tree branch and beeswax, 1983.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sheer size of \u2018Wandering Songs I (Canti errabondi I)\u2019 from 1983 makes it a standout in \u2018Mario Merz:\u00a0 Major Works from the 1980s\u2019 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speronewestwater.com\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/exhibits\/record.html?record=430\" target=\"_blank\">Sperone Westwater Gallery<\/a> on the Lower East Side.\u00a0 The Arte Povera artist\u2019s natural materials abound in an oil painting of leaves and pine cones on a 25\u2019 long canvas, accompanied by a block of beeswax formed around a tree branch.\u00a0 The contrast between nature depicted (the painting), sampled (the branch) and made (wax made by bees) gives the piece its energy. (through Dec 22<sup>nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sheer size of \u2018Wandering Songs I (Canti errabondi I)\u2019 from 1983 makes it a standout in \u2018Mario Merz:\u00a0 Major Works from the 1980s\u2019 at Sperone Westwater Gallery on the Lower East Side.\u00a0 The Arte Povera artist\u2019s natural materials abound in an oil painting of leaves and pine cones on a 25\u2019 long canvas, accompanied &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/16\/mario-merz-at-sperone-westwater-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mario Merz at Sperone Westwater Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[644,147,643,641,172,639,642,640],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-art-and-nature","tag-art-tour","tag-arte-poverta","tag-canti-errabondi","tag-lower-east-side-galleries","tag-mario-mera","tag-sperone-westwater-gallery","tag-wandering-songs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-rO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}