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The installation “Absurd Berlin Diary ’64” by the Italian painter Emilio Vedova (1919–2006) is one of his major works and is unique in its complexity and monumentality within his oeuvre.
The work consists of asymmetrically sawn wooden panels, painted on both sides and connected with iron hinges to form movable structures. Vedova called these pictorial elements, freely positioned in space and only fully comprehensible by walking around them, “Plurimi” (multiple structures). With the development of Plurimi, Vedova liberated painting from the conventional form of the panel painting.
Vedova created the work in 1964, while living and working in West Berlin for a year on a grant from the US-based Ford Foundation. The Berlin Plurimi emerged as a reaction to the divided city, which Vedova experienced as a “clash of contradictory situations.” The work was …
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Image Caption: Emilio Vedova, Absurdes Berliner Tagebuch ’64, 1964, Berlinische Galerie, © Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Foto: Lutz Bertram.
