Line 1000 Meters Long
Piero Manzoni
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Date:1961 -
Style:Conceptual Art -
Genre:installation -
Location:Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US
Line 1000 Meters Long
Piero Manzoni
Manzoni considered the two-dimensional surface of painting and drawing not as something “to be filled with colors and forms” but as a place “of unlimited possibilities” in which a line could exist “beyond all problems of composition and size,” he wrote. The line in this work is more than half a mile long, but in theory, Manzoni believed, such a line could stretch to infinity. One of many similar drawings by the artist, Linea m 1000 is invisible, contained in a generic canister; in this way the work anticipated the Conceptual art of the 1960s, in which the idea—in this case, line—was more important than the form of the artwork.
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