TABLES FROM DRAWINGS OF MARIO MERZ. IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE A SPACE WITH TABLES FOR 88 PEOPLE AS IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE A SPACE WITH TABLES FOR NO ONE. 1974.

NYC: John Weber Gallery, 1974

21 x 30cm, 16pp (self cover) b/w offset litho exhibition catalogue/artist’s book. Merz ‘s conceptual art is often overlooking in favour of his trademark igloo-like sculptures. This small book has a text by Merz considering space and photographs of various tables arranged as per Merz’s instructions to create spaces for 88 people (“One can build a table for 88 people. One must be sure that the number of people stops at 88. The number of people grows like a bunch of grapes, not one by one. For that reason it cannot stop. I reject linear one by one, or assembly line fabrication of spaces”) Fine condition.