CHRISTOV-BAKARGIEV CAROLYN

(P/B) ARTE POVERA
In 1967 critic Germano Celant defined the work of 13 young Italian artists as Arte Povera. Through sculpture and installation they explored the relation between art and life as made manifest through nature, elemental matter or cultural artefacts, and experienced via 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 1960s, A...
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(P/B) ARTE POVERA
In 1967 the Italian art critic Germano Celant coined the term Arte Povera to describe the work of a generation of young Italian artists who used a simple 'poverty' of gestures and materials to explore the relation between art and life. The work of the Arte Povera artists - 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 - continues to be a major influence on contemporary...
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(H/B) ARTE POVERA