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Marengo attempted to explain his pictorial experience developing the "Sign" from the 1940s through the 1960s in a letter to a critic in 1972: "I felt compelled to insert in each painting, a "Sign". In this way, I intend to explain that man should plagiarize his own natural subjectivity...Going
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forward with such resources, the "Instinctive Sign" has evolved into geometrical shapes such as triangles, circles and squares...With this methodology, the pantomime leads to a real and objective dimension."
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