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Conceptual Art is a sounding instrument between printed words, luminous writings, and letters scrawled in a hasty nervous instinctive calligraphy.
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Quoted in Kristine Stiles & Peter Howard Selz: Theories and documents of contemporary art (1996) P.671

 

Mario Merz

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