Nicholas Di Genova

Nicholas Di Genova

FREDERICKS & FREISER

Art built around the repetitive accumulation of objects and images has been around for long enough that it could constitute an extensive collection of its own. From China's 2,200-year-old Terracotta Army to Antony Gormley's Field, 1991; from Andy Warhol's early-1960s soup cans and Coke bottles to Allan McCollum's "Shapes Project," 20052006, countless artists have exploited the power of sheer number for visual impact and associative effect. And though this compulsive racking and stacking has perhaps most often been linked to Minimalism and its direct descendants - think, to take one iconic example, of Walter De Maria's Broken …