Art dealers at Art Basel Paris are seizing the opportunity to bring several historic Arte Povera works to the fair, plus ‘post-Arte Povera’ creations influenced by them. The fair opens this week in ...
In 1967, Italian art critic Germano Celant coined the term Arte Povera, meaning ‘poor art,’ to describe a group of young, anti-elitist artists who were determined to break away from the status quo of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The famous igloos by Mario Merz in the "Arte Povera" exhibition at the Pinault museum's Bourse de Commerce in Paris. Sabine ...
It doesn’t take long to spot the tendencies of members of Arte Povera, the “poor art” movement that took shape in late-1960s Italy. Each of the poveristi had certain creative signatures — generally ...
Paris, Jun 7 (EFE).Paris, Jun 7 (EFE). — A multidisciplinary exhibition of works from the Italianborn Arte Povera movement opens this week at the Centre Pompidou in the French capital. Due to run June ...
*There's curatorese, and then there's Italian curatorese. And then there's Italian curatorese translated into English, and this DOMUS article has really got that stuff going on. I don't think I've ...
Arte Povera’s groundbreaking approach was, in many ways, a product of its time: Italy was freshly post-war, undergoing reconstruction under U.S.-supported Marshall Plan efforts, which spurred rapid ...
In 1967, a mediocre Italian painter named Michelangelo Pistoletto had an idea. Collecting the rags from his studio, he heaped them in front of a statue of Venus, recasting the Roman goddess as a ...