BY Jan Verwoert in Reviews | 12 NOV 04
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BY Jan Verwoert in Reviews | 12 NOV 04

Once upon a time Danish industrialist Aage Damgaard, the owner of a textile factory in Herning, invited Italian artist Piero Manzoni to take up a residency there. Manzoni arrived in 1961, probably saw the curvature of the Earth on the broad horizon of the northern lowlands and decided to place a cube on the

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JAN VERWOERT

Jan Verwoert is a writer and contributing editor of frieze. He is based in Oslo, Norway. Cookie! (2014), a selection of his writings, is published by Sternberg Press.

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