Arte Povera
Arte povera is the Italian art movement that emerged in the late 1960s, whose exponents — among others Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Giulio Paolini, Gilberto Zorio and Mario Merz — almost all came from Turin.[1][2]
The name
The term was coined by the critic Germano Celant in 1967, on the occasion of the exhibition at the La Bertesca gallery in Genoa, and that same year Celant published the manifesto "Arte povera. Appunti per una guerriglia" in «Flash Art».[1][3] Already in April 1967 the GAM in Turin had exhibited works by the future arte povera artists at its experimental museum.[4]
Turin
In Turin a decisive role was played by the galleries of Gian Enzo Sperone and Christian Stein, and by the Deposito d'Arte Presente, promoted between 1967 and 1969 by the collector Marcello Levi; on 19 January 1968 Mario Merz opened his solo show at the Sperone gallery.[2][4][5] In 2000 more than twenty works from Margherita Stein's collection entered the GAM and the Castello di Rivoli through the Fondazione CRT.[4]
Today
Giovanni Anselmo, born in Borgofranco d'Ivrea in 1934 and winner of the Golden Lion in Venice in 1990, died in Turin on 18 December 2023.[6] From July 2026 the Castello di Rivoli is presenting the masterpieces of its arte povera collection in monographic rooms dedicated to each artist.[7]
Pages linking here
- Castello di Rivoli
- Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
- Installation of a work by Mario Merz at the Istituto Nazionale Oncologico di Candiolo (September 2026)
- Mario Merz's "Doppio igloo di Porto" Installed at the Candiolo Cancer Institute (September 2026)
Sources
- Treccani
- Castello di Rivoli — 1 November 2023
- Castello di Rivoli
- Castello di Rivoli —
- Fondazione Merz
- swissinfo — 18 December 2023
- Castello di Rivoli —