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Provenance: Galleria Antonio Tucci Russo, Turin
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1982

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Exhibited: Turin, Galleria Antonio Tucci Russo, Mario Merz: Tavola a spirale per festino di giornali datati il giorno del festino, 1976.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Mario Merz, 1981 (installation view illustrated in colour, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to Basel, Kunsthalle Basel.
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, L'Architecte est absent, Works from the Collection of Annick and Anton Herbert, 1984 (illustrated in colour, p. 76).
Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, on extended loan 1997-2003.
Luxembourg, Casino Luxembourg- Forum d'art contemporain, Many Colored Objects Placed Side by Side to Form a Row of Many Colored Objects: Works from the Collection of Annick and Anton Herbert, 2000- 2001 (installation view illustrated in colour, p. 59).
Turin, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Mario Merz, 2005, no. 131 (installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 193-195).
Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Public Space/Two Audiences Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection, 2006 (installation view illustrated, p. 21 and installation view illustrated in colour, p. 283).

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Literature: Mario Merz, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1989 (installation view illustrated in colour, p. 123).

This work is registered with the Archivio Mario Merz under no. 316/FB/1976.

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Notes: Mario Merz (1925-2003)
6765
eighty-three stacks of newspapers, glass plates and neon tubes
overall: 354¾ x 196 7/8 in. (900 x 500 cm. approximately) - dimensions variable
Executed in 1976. (83)