OBS-ART-168
Dadamaino — Alfabeto della mente
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Surface as Boundary
OBS-ART-168
Systemic Construction
Atlas Index:
OBS-ART-168
Origin:
italy
Era:
1960s-1970s
Themes / Lineage:
italian postwar practice, notation, reduction
Field Notes:
Marks are reduced to sign. Line becomes signal. Boundary is carried by minimal notation.
Quiet Modernism appears here as limits articulated through surface.

Surface as Boundary

Dadamaino — Alfabeto della mente

The surface defines a limit.

Thickness replaces edge.

Boundary holds.

How does the limit form?
A surface is often treated as plane, yet it establishes separation. Thickness replaces edge. What continues is boundary emerging through surface.

A surface is often treated as plane, yet it establishes separation.

Thickness replaces edge.

What continues is boundary emerging through surface.

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