Private Collection, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in the 1970s)
Exhibited
Turin, Christian Stein Gallery; Galleria Il Punto; Galleria Sperone Gallery, Con temp l'azione, December 1967 Milan, Galleria Schwarz, Macchine e oggetti condizionali, 5 - 30 March 1968
Catalogue Essay
'Nespolo's reality does not affirm itself as an immediate revelation, enlightening and all-encompassing; rather, it appears like a thin, intermediate zone halfway between the singularisation of the object and its direct appropriation.' (Pierre Restany, quoted in 'Ugo Nespolo and the critique of practical reason' Macchine e oggetti condizionali, exh. cat. Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 1968).