ARTE POVERA
Synopsis
"poor art" or "impoverished art was the most
significant and influential avant-garde movement
in Europe in the 1960s (1967-1972 (in Torino)).
The term Arte Povera was first used by Italian art
critic Germano Celant to describe a broad
category of art being produced by an international
cross section of artists although it is now generally
used to apply only to Italian art of this period.
What is Arte Povera?
Basically its a return to basic objects and
messages. Artists began attacking the
values of established institutions of
government, industry, and culture. They
were trying to explain the relation between
nature, culture and human. Complex and
symbolic signs lost their meaning
Arte Povera is most notable for its use of
simple it did not use these to the exclusion
of all else. Some of the group's most
memorable work comes from the contrast of
unprocessed materials with references to the
most recent consumer culture. they believe
that modernity threatened to erase our sense
of memory along with all signs of the past.so
the Arte Povera group used the contrast of
new and old in order to complicate our sense
of the effects of passing time.
it was not a scientific rationalism. By
contrast, they conjured a world of myth
whose mysteries couldn't be easily
explained. By doing so, the Italian artists
evoked some of the effects of
modernization. This art movement in life in
torino which is not accidental. Torino's
environment was the place of reflection of
the social problems in the country.
they put themselves in the shade of the
background. The choice of materials and
their usage , created a sense determined the
direction of the art movement. The material
was supposed to be simple, crude , water,
found in nature , such as land , free of charge
basically the material was supposed to be
poor. Besides of using "poor" material, the
term of complexity was also important. the
work has to be simple, presented as
emotional and sensory not intellectually.
Through sculpture, assemblage, and
Performance, Arte Povera artists
became engaged in subjective
investigations of
the relationships between life and art
and between seeing and thinking.
Approaches that had more in common
with pre-war avant-gardes such as
Surrealism, Dada and Constructivism.
Artists of Arte Povera
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Giovanni Anselmo
Mario Merz
Giuseppe Penone
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michelangelo Pistoletto born in 25 June 1933. Is an
Italian painter, action and object artist, and art
theorist. Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the
main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His
work mainly deals with the subject matter of
reflection and the unification of art and everyday life
in terms of Gesamtkunstwerk*.
*isa work of art that makes use of all or many art
forms
Venere degli stracci-Venus of rag
Uomo in piedi (Standing Man)
Giovanni Anselmo
Giovanni Anselmo born in 1934 in
Borgofranco d'Ivrea (Province of Turin,
Italy) is an artist who emerged in Italy after
World War II within the art movement Arte
Povera
Giuseppe Penone
born 3 April 1947. He is an Italian artist.
Penone started working professionally in 1968
in the Garessio forest, near where he was
born. He is the younger member of the Italian
movement named "Arte Povera", this term
has been coined by Germano Celant. Penone's
work is concerned with establishing a contact
between man and nature.
Tree of 12 meters
Mario Merz
Born in Milano, Merz started drawing during
World War II, when he was imprisoned for his
activities with the Giustizia e Libertà antifascist
group. He experimented with a continuous
graphic stroke–not removing his pencil point from
the paper. He and his wife Marisa Merz associated
with the development of Arte Povera, and they
were both influenced by each other's works.
Iglo, Do We Go Around Houses, or Do
Houses Go Around Us?
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