{"id":5409,"date":"2016-06-15T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5409"},"modified":"2025-02-12T23:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T04:03:49","slug":"mario-merz-at-sperone-westwater-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/15\/mario-merz-at-sperone-westwater-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Merz, Tavola a Spirale at Sperone Westwater Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz demonstrated his ongoing interest in the Fibonacci sequence this spiral table from 1982, now on view at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speronewestwater.com\/exhibitions\" target=\"_blank\">Sperone Westwater Gallery<\/a>. Merz translates the Fibonacci numbers \u2013 in which each number is the sum of the previous two \u2013 into a symbolic display of nature\u2019s beautiful bounty. (On the Lower East Side through June 25<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5410\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/15\/mario-merz-at-sperone-westwater-gallery-2\/mario_merz-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5410\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mario_merz-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Merz, Tavola a spirale (Spiral Table), aluminum, glass, fruit, vegetables, laurel branches, tar paper and beeswax, 216 inches diameter, 1982.\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mario_merz-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mario_merz-1200x837.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Merz, Tavola a spirale (Spiral Table), aluminum, glass, fruit, vegetables, laurel branches, tar paper and beeswax, 216 inches diameter, 1982.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz demonstrated his ongoing interest in the Fibonacci sequence this spiral table from 1982, now on view at Sperone Westwater Gallery. Merz translates the Fibonacci numbers \u2013 in which each number is the sum of the previous two \u2013 into a symbolic display of nature\u2019s beautiful bounty. (On the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/15\/mario-merz-at-sperone-westwater-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mario Merz, Tavola a Spirale 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":"none","_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":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_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":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,147,355,18,9,6004,13,432,4035,431,434,6003,12,3663,2823,10,3908,609,6006,6005,16,3866],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-arte-povera","tag-artist","tag-contemporary","tag-fibonacci","tag-gallery","tag-gallery-tour","tag-italian","tag-lower-east-side","tag-lower-east-side-tour","tag-mario-merz","tag-new-york","tag-numbers","tag-sculptor","tag-sculpture","tag-sequence","tag-sperone-westwater","tag-spiral-table","tag-tavola-a-spirale","tag-tour","tag-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1pf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","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=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11955,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions\/11955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}