Arte Povera

Turin’s Museum of Contemporary Art, housed in the fabulous spaces of the baroque Castle of Rivoli, recently dedicated a retrospective to Piero Gilardi.

An Introduction to Arte Povera.

Definition, characteristics, history of junk art movement.

Information about Arte Povera and artists.

Read about Arte Povera and the group anti-elitist artists who started the movement.

Artworks and artists: Arte Povera was the most significant and influential avant-garde movement to emerge in Europe in the 1960s. It grouped the work of around a dozen Italian artists whose most distinctly recognizable trait was their use of commonplace materials.

Arte Povera is a modern art movement. The Arte Povera movement was during 1967-1972 and took place in cities throughout Italy: Turin, Milan, Rome, Genoa, Venice, Naples and Bologna.

"Arte Povera","arme Kunst".The term Arte Povera was introduced by the Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant.

An Italian variant of Conceptualism during the late 1960s and early 1970s that was linked to the political radicalism of the period, which reached its zenith with the student uprisings of 1968. It was marked by an attempt to rescue individuals from the stifling effects of consumer culture and, according to Arte Povera pioneer Germano Celant, the group?s critical mouthpiece, the attempt to break down the separation between art and life. Arte Povera works were either happenings or sculptures that were created with unglamorous everyday materials and often displayed surprising juxtapositions.

The movement Arte Povera began in late 1960's the key artists were; Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Pino Pascali and Michelangelo Pistolet

This thematic exhibition of works from the collection concentrates on the arte povera movement, which is central to the museum's collecting policy. This makes it a highly appropriate subject for this exhibition, twenty-five years after the Museum of Contemporary Art first opened its doors.

A V&A exhibition charts the stunning rise of Italian fashion since 1945 - but how to explain the dinginess of Arte Povera in the same period, asks Alastair. Smart?

Tate glossary description for arte povera: Radical Italian art movement from the late 1960s to 1970s whose artists explored a range of unconventional processes and non traditional 'everyday' materials.

Wikipedia's information about Mario Merz.