Arte Povera: Boetti, Fabro, Merz, Penone, Kounellis, Pistoletto

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About Arte Povera: Boetti, Fabro, Merz, Penone, Kounellis, Pistoletto

Arte Povera:
Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier-Paolo Calzolari, Rossella Cosentino, Luciano Fabro, Lucio Fontana, Piero Gilardi, Jannis Kounellis, Ondrej Mares, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, John Roloff, Gilberto Zorio

Arte Povera is a style of modern art. The term was introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance. Artists began attacking the values of established institutions of government, industry, and culture, and even questioning whether art as the private expression of the individual still had an ethical reason to exist. Italian art critic Germano Celant organized two exhibitions in 1967 and 1968, followed by an influential book called Arte Povera, promoting the notion of a revolutionary art, free of convention, the power of structure, and the market place. Although Celant attempted to encompass the radical elements of the entire international scene, the term properly centered on a group of Italian artists who attacked the corporate mentality with an art of unconventional materials and style. They often used found objects in their works. Other early exponents of radical change in the visual arts include proto Arte Povera artists: Antoni Tàpies and the Dau al Set movement, and Lucio Fontana and Spatialism.

The most wide-ranging public collection of works from the Arte Povera movement is at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.