Part of a collective volume published on the occasion of the exhibition "Giancarlo Zen. La luce fa l'immagine" (the artist's first retrospective), the essay traces the origins and evolution of Giancarlo Zen's object-based and sculptural poetics: from his experimentation with industrial PVC pipes in the Lebensraum series of the late 1960s to his neon "light sculptures."

Towards the aesthetics of defunctionalisation. Notes on Giancarlo Zen's research into objects and sculpture

Federica stevanin
2026

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Part of a collective volume published on the occasion of the exhibition "Giancarlo Zen. La luce fa l'immagine" (the artist's first retrospective), the essay traces the origins and evolution of Giancarlo Zen's object-based and sculptural poetics: from his experimentation with industrial PVC pipes in the Lebensraum series of the late 1960s to his neon "light sculptures."
2026
Giancarlo Zen. La luce fa l'immagine
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