L’‘eccentrico’ e il ‘negativo’: Marisa Merz e Eva Hesse

The article compares two artists who have never before been placed side by side: Marisa Merz and Eva Hesse. There are neither direct connections nor obvious traces of influence, in one sense or another, that would justify a relationship between the two. However, the operational characteristics allow comparisons to be established that have a paradigmatic value for the emergence of an alternative perspective to that of contemporary male artists. A perspective that makes it possible to reconsider the boundaries of art in general, in the interweaving of the “personal”, if not with the “political”, at least with the “public”. The article focuses precisely on the relationship between the “personal” and the environment, reconstructed through statements, testimonies and diary entries.