The Washington Post, September 1st, 2000
Conrad Marca-Relli, 87, an Italian American collagist who served as a link between the European avant-garde and American abstract expressionism, died Aug. 29 at his home in Parma, Italy, after a heart attack. His greatest contribution came in the 1950s, when he revolutionized the medium of collage, adding strips of canvas over the canvas and painting them over in a subdued palette--"a painting with oil and canvas," in one critic's words. "He was the first artist who took collage to monumental proportions," said Marco Niccoli, owner of the Parma art gallery that has exhibited Mr. Marca-Relli's ...
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