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arte povera

moment of aesthetic rebellion


GERMANO CELANT

1962 - 1972
Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari,
Luciano Fabro, Piero
Marisa Merz,

Gilardi, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz,

Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone,


Emilio Prini Gilberto Zorio.
MILAN ROME

Michelangelo Pistoletto,

TURIN

IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT SHAPED THIS ART MOVEMENT:

EVENT

YEAR

AUTHOR

PLACE LA BERTESCA GALLERY, GENOA

ARTE POVERA EXHIBITION

1967

CELANT

ARTE POVERA: APPUNTI PER UNA GUERRIGLIA [arte povera: notes for a guerrilla warfare]

1967

CELANT

ARTE POVERA:CONCEPTUAL , ACTUAL OR IMPOSSIBLE ART

1969

CELANT

MICHAELANGELO PISTOLETTO

VENUS OF THE RAGS APPEARS TO BRING TOGETHER AN ICONIC FIGURE OF CLASSICAL CULTURE WITH THE DETRITUS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AS THE SOLID ROMAN GODDESS PROPS UP A RANDOMLY FORMED PILE OF GAUDILY COLOURED SECOND-HAND CLOTHES. IN FACT THE FIGURE IS BASED ON A KITSCH STATUE FOUND IN A GARDEN CENTRE RATHER THAN A GENUINE ANTIQUITY.

ALPI MARITTIME (MARITIME ALPS)

GIUSEPPE PENONE,

crisis
FOR CELANT, THE TERM HAD FAILED IN TWO RESPECTS:

A. TO IGNITE A POLITICALLY CHARGED ART. B. TO DEFINE THE WORK OF SUCH A VARIED GROUP OF ARTISTS.

SUBJECT TO LOOSE TRANSLATIONS: THE WORD "POOR" WAS TOO OFTEN EMPHASIZED OVER THE WORD "ART," THE NATURE OF THE MATERIALS OVERSHADOWED THE OBJECTIVES .FOR EXAMPLE, PENONE AND MERZ CREATED HUMANSCALE WORKS IN NATURE RATHER THAN THE MONUMENTAL EARTHWORKS OF ROBERT SMITHSON.

REFERENCES

SITE- SPECIFIC ART: PERFORMANCE, PLACE AND DOCUMENTATIONN - Nick Kaye TATE MUSEUM ARCHIVE

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