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Francesco Arena, Cube (Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné), 2018

Francesco Arena

Cube (Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné), 2018
Rosso Verona and Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné by Victor Hugo
18.1 x 18.1 x 18.1 cm
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Cube (Book) is a series of works that evolved out of a list of books important to the artist, which he ordered, seeking out the original versions of these books...
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Cube (Book) is a series of works that evolved out of a list of books important to the artist, which he ordered, seeking out the original versions of these books in the language the author wrote them in, in hardcover edition. The artist used the longer side of the book to calculate the dimensions of a marble cube. After cutting the marble into a cube, he removed a slice from it so that the book responsible for the marble being sized could be inserted into the marble and become part of it, restoring the cube to its initial whole shape.
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