1st Edition

Transnational Perspectives on the Art of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica From Abstraction to Participation

By Lara Demori Copyright 2025
204 Pages 19 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 19 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Establishing a ‘missed link’ between the work of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists’ practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s. Lara Demori envisions a transnational juxtaposition, a conceptual dialogue that discloses overlooked resonances... Read more

Introduction: Missed Links  1. Tabula Rasa  2. Anti-art  3. Open Work  4. The Freedom of (Self-) Marginalisation  Epilogue: Marginal Notes

Biography

Lara Demori is a Rome-based researcher and curator, guest fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History.