Socle du Monde

Herning Kunstmuseum and Ikast Kedelhal, Herning, Denmark

Once upon a time Danish industrialist Aage Damgaard, the owner of a textile factory in Herning, invited Italian artist Piero Manzoni to take up a residency there. Manzoni arrived in 1961, probably saw the curvature of the Earth on the broad horizon of the northern lowlands and decided to place a cube on the

Jan Verwoert

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