Contro gli oggetti: attorno a un igloo di Mario Merz nel 1968.

Created in the aftermath of the French protests of May 1968, Mario Merz's Igloo, titled Objet cache-toi, was an unusual blend of protest language—the title was inspired by graffiti that appeared on the walls of the Sorbonne at that time—and the dematerialization of post-minimalist art. This article compares Arte Povera and Merz's strategies of opposing consumerism and commodity fetishism with a specific strand of Italian artistic modernism and the historiographical interpretations of the 1968 slogans.