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In 1967 the critic Germano Celant coined the term Arte Povera to describe the work of Italian artists making use of simple materials to achieve their artistic statements in a reaction against the commercial pressures of the art market in the late 1960s Artists associated with Arte Povera include Luciano Fabro Giulio Paolini Jannia Kounellis Mario Merz and Alighiero Boetti The term has subsequently been used to describe work in a wide range of mediums including sculpture installation Land Art and performance In this fully illustrated survey Robert Lumley provides a concise and accessible account of the phenomenon of Arte Povera He identifies key events in the history of the movement and explains the cultural context that gave rise to it and its abiding influence on art today This is the ideal book for anyone who wants to explore one of the formative movements in the development of contemporary art AUTHOR BIO Robert Lumley a noted critic is professor of Italian cultural history at University College London
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Arte Povera is Italys most important and influential postwar art movement Originally championed by the leading art critic Germano Celant it included internationally recognized artists such as Alighiero Boetti Jannis Kounelli Mario and Marisa Merz and Michelangelo Pistoletto Edited by one of the worlds foremost authorities on the subject Arte Povera is the most complete overview of this movement ever published
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Arte Povera is Italys most important and influential postwar art movement Originally championed by the leading art critic Germano Celant it included internationally recognized artists such as Alighiero Boetti Jannis Kounelli Mario and Marisa Merz and Michelangelo Pistoletto Edited by one of the worlds foremost authorities on the subject Arte Povera is the most complete overview of this movement ever published
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This new catalogue of works from the Goetz Collection documents the Arte Povera movement which began in Italy in the 1960s and features many of its major artists including Giovanni Anselmo Alighiero Boetti Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Fabro Jannis Kounellis Mario Merz Giulio Paolini Pino Pascali Guiseppe Penone Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zorio
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This book is being published in connection with the exhibitions being planned for 2011 all over Italy to mark the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy Starting with the cult book of 1985 this is an updated detailed account of Arte Povera For the first time everything written by Germano Celant about the group of artists comprising Giovanni Anselmo Alighiero Boetti Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Fabro Jannis Kounellis Mario Merz Marisa Merz Giulio Paolini Pino Pascali Giuseppe Penone Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zorio for which he himself in 1967 coined the term Arte Povera This book is a collection of theoretical texts focusing on both the art of the movement and the styles of the individual artists and concentrates as much on the movements contingent side as on its fragmentary contradictory pluralistic way of creating art But above all it is a comprehensive update on his reflections in 1985 the year of the book entitled Arte Povera Stories and Protagonists which was written by Celant himself was never distributed and since it was only circulated amongst those involved became a muchsoughtafter and inaccessible cult item This book contains a facsimile of the original providing a source of reference and an opportunity to take a new look at Arte Povera Since 1967 the language of Arte Povera has brought within its scope water and stone fire and electricity words and ideas and has even involved animals and plants which take on particular significance because they belong to the primary essential world This field of art has always been based on a deconstructive attitude which takes into account the many different kinds of artistic expression in relation to the context in which it is created The constant innovation and originality of the Arte Povera movement over the years made it a lasting influence on the Italian contemporary art scene
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Zero to Infinity Arte Povera 19621972 focuses on one of the most innovative and influential art movements of the postwar era Arte Povera came of age in the context of the Italian miracle economic boom and the subsequent student and workers revolts of 1968 motivated by an urge to revolt not only against the primacy of painting in the postwar period but also against the emerging consumer culture This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue provide a highly comprehensive retrospective of the Arte Povera movement as a historical and aesthetic phenomenon that crossed a wide range of disciplines including sculpture installation drawing photography film and performance The exhibition traces Arte Poveras genesis within the artistic and political context of Italy to its positioning within the broader international context of postwar artistic practices a moment marked by the participation of the Arte Povera group in the 1972 Documenta V exhibition in Kassel This essential new catalogue is designed by the Walker Art Centers awardwinning design department and includes a wide range of essays by international scholars and curators as well as rare historical documentation in an unprecedented reexamination of the Arte Povera movement
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Zero to Infinity Arte Povera 19621972 focuses on one of the most innovative and influential art movements of the postwar era Arte Povera came of age in the context of the Italian miracle economic boom and the subsequent student and workers revolts of 1968 motivated by an urge to revolt not only against the primacy of painting in the postwar period but also against the emerging consumer culture This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue provide a highly comprehensive retrospective of the Arte Povera movement as a historical and aesthetic phenomenon that crossed a wide range of disciplines including sculpture installation drawing photography film and performance The exhibition traces Arte Poveras genesis within the artistic and political context of Italy to its positioning within the broader international context of postwar artistic practices a moment marked by the participation of the Arte Povera group in the 1972 Documenta V exhibition in Kassel This essential new catalogue is designed by the Walker Art Centers awardwinning design department and includes a wide range of essays by international scholars and curators as well as rare historical documentation in an unprecedented reexamination of the Arte Povera movement
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In works that occupy a unique midground between painting and sculpture Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies 19232012 fused the material vocabulary of Arte Povera and the gestural energy of abstract expressionism with the mystical sensibility of Iberian Catholicism Tàpies showed a preference for an austere palate and unconventional materials reflecting the limited resources of his political environment He spent three decades of his long productive career in Barcelona where he lived and died under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco In that time Tàpies confronted many of the paradoxes a creative artist faces under an authoritarian and antiintellectual regime In painting sculpture writing and other mediums his work existed in conversation with the currents of contemporary art in the West while within the strictures of an oppressive state Antoni Tàpies Political Biography illuminates the artists responses to the conditions of his native Catalonia reproducing documents such as letters manifestoes and samples of the media reception Tàpies generated over the years alongside reproductions of works from across his career Texts by artists curators and critics discussing Tàpies and the context of his oeuvre plus a comparative chronology are also included
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Spare and concise the art of Giovanni Anselmo born 1934 perfectly embodies the spirit of the Arte Povera movement of which he was a protagonist The sculptures objects drawings and photographs gathered in this volume illustrate his concern with the observation of natural processes and energies
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Published to accompany the first largescale retrospective of Alighiero Boettis work outside Italy in over a decade this volume presents the most comprehensive overview of the artists career to date Covering all periods of Boettis broad oeuvreincluding early sculptural experiments associated with the Arte Povera movement conceptual and ephemeral projects of the 1970s and the monumental embroideries and tapestries he fabricated up to his deaththis richly illustrated catalogue is structured as a typology of the artists body of work rather than a chronological progression Essays by curators from the Reina Sofia Madrid the Tate Modern London and The Museum of Modern Art New York address recurrent themes in Boettis work such as travel and geography time order and disorder and singularity and multitude while contributions by scholars examine his early influences and his relationship to the cultural political and social spheres of Italy and Afghanistan in the 1970s and 1980s This volume celebrates the material diversity conceptual complexity and visual beauty of Boettis work proving that he is one of the most important and influential artists of his generation
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Helen Mirra born in 1970 in Rochester New York creates work from simple materialsincluding worn clothing and wood recovered from transportation palettesat the intersection of influences including Arte Povera and Fluxus She also writes and for the past few years her writing has come in the form of indexes Dislocated from a source text the entries lettered on long strips of cloth tape that resemble typewriter ribbons unspool into the world at large Like clash 247 her index to a volume of William James essays this volume tracks words and ideas through John Deweys Reconstruction in Philosophy 1920 If the original text in this case is largely about the conceptualization of ideas Mirras index is a materialization of conceptualization under the auspices of a spare poetics Mirra who had a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2002 and participated in the 2003 Venice Biennale also teaches at Harvard University
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Alighiero Boetti 19401994 was one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century Originally associated with the Arte Povera group in Turin in the 1960s he made works using materials sourced in hardware stores shifting by 1970 to create art using drawing Biro pens newspaper images and artists books Based in Rome he travelled constantly to distant destinations including Guatemala Ethiopia Japan and most frequently Kabul in Afghanistan It was in Kabul that he set up a hotel and commissioned artisans to create embroideries most famously his mappe intricate maps of the world coloured according to political affiliation Boettis work is always poetic and playful and he enjoyed creating different kinds of games involving time patterns and numeric sequences At the same time he remained in touch with and inspired by the world around him responsive to the complex political shifts that took place during the 1970s and 80s Published on the occasion of a major touring exhibition this comprehensive lavishly illustrated overview brings together leading international critics and curators each examining a different aspect of Boettis achievements together helping to explain why he remains both influential and inspiring nearly two decades after his death
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Alberto Burri 19151995 is a key early figure of the art informel and arte povera movements This survey of work from the 1940s through the 90s highlights the artists use of unorthodox materials like burlap sackcloth ceramic plastic and tar and features a new essay by renowned scholar Germano Celant
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For his 2011 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery recorded in this volume Arte Povera veteran Michelangelo Pistoletto born 1933 devised a chesthigh labyrinth made of cardboard to draw visitors through the galleries and steer them into encounters with various sculptures
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Piero Gilardi born 1942 looms large in the annals of the European postwar avantgarde A pioneer of Arte Povera and a promoter of Richard Long and Jan Dibbets who also introduced American artists such as Bruce Nauman or Eva Hesse to a European audience Gilardi is also a political activist This retrospective monograph surveys his many activities
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Alighiero Boetti 19401994 was one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century Originally associated with the Arte Povera group in Turin in the 1960s he made works using materials sourced in hardware stores shifting by 1970 to create art using drawing Biro pens newspaper images and artists books Based in Rome he travelled constantly to distant destinations including Guatemala Ethiopia Japan and most frequently Kabul in Afghanistan It was in Kabul that he set up a hotel and commissioned artisans to create embroideries most famously his mappe intricate maps of the world coloured according to political affiliation Boettis work is always poetic and playful and he enjoyed creating different kinds of games involving time patterns and numeric sequences At the same time he remained in touch with and inspired by the world around him responsive to the complex political shifts that took place during the 1970s and 80s Published on the occasion of a major touring exhibition this comprehensive lavishly illustrated overview brings together leading international critics and curators each examining a different aspect of Boettis achievements together helping to explain why he remains both influential and inspiring nearly two decades after his death
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