Kevin McManus

The article analyzes a few examples of abstract sculpture in Milan in the early 1970s, in which the choice of typically industrial materials (such as plexiglas, glass, stainless steel, etc.) constitutes both a response to similar instances in international art, and a challenge to the typical “presence” of traditional sculpture: the sculptural form is dissolved in the surrounding space, turning the artwork into a device for the perception of its environment, instead of focusing on the centrality of the piece...