Decima musa, 1966

Three triangular primed canvases are propped up against each other in the corner of a room, creating a protruding volumetric composition.
The work is part of the research that distinguished the artist's output in 1966. Starting from the same premise – canvases juxtaposed so that they mark the corner of a room, seen as the elementary point of origin of a space – many different optical configurations were developed, calling into play the gap between the logical assumption – the elementary and rational given – and the illogical and mutating complexity of the perception. Within this series of works Decima musa is the only solution that proposes an authentically three-dimensional figure (a spatial given that is positive rather than negative).
The title “Tenth Muse” reappears in a work from the same year that was made soon afterwards (GPO-0111).