Presentation of works on paper by Tony Cragg and Mario Merz

The Buchmann Galerie Lugano is pleased to present a new presentation focusing on works on paper by Tony Cragg and Mario Merz. On the main wall of the gallery space are several drawings by the British artist made in the 1990s.

Tony Cragg as a sculptor regularly devotes himself to drawing and graphics, which are the point of origin for the creative process of many different types of sculptures. Cragg draws inspiration from his surroundings - nature and its organic compositions, the crystalline structures of minerals, geology. Art and science merge in his practice, creating an unlimited series of forms and combinations.

Mario Merz is represented with an artwork on paper consisting of 14 drawings titled Il legno formato, 1983 made with pencil, colored pencils and scales of fir cone. This work is reproduced in the catalogue of the monographic exhibition Mario Merz. Drawings held at the Kunstmuseum in Winterthur and the Fondazione Merz in Turin in 2007. Drawing is the starting point of Mario Merz's work. As he himself relates, "I am the boy who went to the fields hoping to be able to bring home a drawing without having to imitate the landscape of the 19th century. The boy who drew the sensations of nature." Rejecting all that is definitive and interpreting his own work as a sketch, Merz sees drawing as the most suitable medium, as well as the most intimate.

Along with the artworks of our artists is also presented the DAPRESBOOMOON carpet designed by Davide Macullo in wool and silk.

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