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Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968) Canvas

"Spatial Concept, Waiting is one of a series of works Fontana made in Milan between 1958 and 1968. These works, which all consist of a canvas that has been cut either once or multiply, are collectively known as the Tagli ('cuts')."

"The first Tagli were made in the late summer and early autumn of 1958. They comprised small, often diagonal incisions, composed in groups over unprimed canvases. During 1959 these tentative slits evolved into single, more decisive slashes, as in the present work. Each cut was made with a single gesture using a sharp blade, and the canvases were then backed with strong black gauze giving the appearance of a void behind."

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Cildo Meireles (Brazilian born 1948) Radios, lighting and sound.

"Babel 2001 is a large-scale sculptural installation that takes the form of a circular tower made from hundreds of second-hand analogue radios that the artist has stacked in layers. The radios are tuned to a multitude of different stations and are adjusted to the minimum volume at which they are audible. Nevertheless, they compete with each other and create a cacophony of low, continuous sound, resulting in inaccessible information, voices or music."

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Roj Friberg (Swedish 1934 - 2016), graphite on paper.

"Working on graphite-coated paper, Fribrg erases darkness to expose light, creating photographic effects with hypnotic depth. Here, we see a lifeless civilization over which a huge, shadowy dark bomb rises, engulfing the light."

Arvidsson, K. (2025). Apocalypse; From Last Judgement to Climate Threat.