Gelatin silver prints, neon tubing, transformer, and wire
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This sequence of photographs depicts an ever-increasing number of people sitting in a restaurant, numbered in neon above. These numbers follow the Fibonacci series, a system of growth (often seen in nature) that perpetuates itself by adding the two previous elements to arrive at the next. Merz began using the series in 1970. He has said, "I did not understand why a work of art had to be a certain length when it could be infinite. . . . In the Fibonacci series, there are no spatial limitations because space becomes infinite—not abstract infinity, but biological infinity."
2008.
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Arte Povera
A movement of young Italian artists who attempted to create a new sculptural language through the use of humble, everyday materials.
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Neon
A form of lighting used especially on advertising signs, consisting of glass tubes filled with neon or other gases that emit colored light when subjected to an electric current; an extremely bright or vivid shade of a color.
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