ARTE POVERA

In 1967 critic Germano Celant defined the work of 13 young Italian artists as Arte Povera. Through sculpture and installation they e xplored the relation between art and life as made manifest through nature, elemental matter or cultural artefacts, and experienced v ia the body. Their innovative works are lyrical, open-ended combinations of unlikely fragments - a slab of marble with a lettuce, or fruit scattered among neon tubes - giving the most banal materials a metaphysical dimension. First exhibiting together in Italy in the late ...[Read more]