Arte povera is an Italian art movement that, like Fnturism and Metaphysics, is recognized on an international level as one of the most important avant-garde art tendencies of the 20th century.In the mid-Sixties it brought about a radical definition of art that emerged as an alternative to the prevailing poetics of that time that were inspired by images typical of consumer society.Wbile not hesitating to make use of canvas, drawing or photography, the "povero" artist works with primary materials.These can be elements that belong to nature, such as earth, fire,wool, plants and animals; or elements that express the energy inherent in all things, such as neon light, wax or salt, which react to the environment, or copper or lead, which are easily malleable.

Arte povera is an Italian art movement that, like Fnturism and Metaphysics, is recognized on an international level as one of the most important avant-garde art tendencies of the 20th century.In the mid-Sixties it brought about a radical definition of art that emerged as an alternative to the prevailing poetics of that time that were inspired by images typical of consumer society.Wbile not hesitating to make use of canvas, drawing or photography, the "povero" artist works with primary materials.These can be elements that belong to nature, such as earth, fire,wool, plants and animals; or elements that express the energy inherent in all things, such as neon light, wax or salt, which react to the environment, or copper or lead, which are easily malleable.Thanks to this publication, edited by Ida Gianelli, it is finally possible to understand Arte povera in depth, through a selection of 90 works, from the permanent collections of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporaty Art, Rivoli-Torino and the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, with the addition of the important acquisition of works from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Turin.

This exhibit documents works by the leading Arte povera artists:Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Ginseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gilberto Zorio.The book, extensive in its iconography, is also a precise analytical tool, with critical-historical contributions by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Germano Celant, Tommaso Trini, and Harald Szeemann, and extensive biographieal-bibliographica/ notes.

Premessa

Foreword

Andrea Cotuba

Introduzione

Introduction

Ida Gianelli

Introduzione

Introduction

Pier Giovanni Castagnoli

Arte povera

Arte povera

Gerl?lano Celant

Sulla mostra(Quando attitudini diventano forma)

The Exhibition(When Attitudes Become Form)

Harald Szeemann

Nuovo alfabeto per corpo e materia

A New Alphabet for Body and Matter

Tommado Trini

Sulla mostra(Processi di pensiero visualizzati)

The Exhibition(Visualized Thinking Processes)

Jean—Cbristophe Ammann

Arte povera al／at Castello

Opere／Wbrks

Apparati／Appendix

A cura di／Edited by Giorgio Verzotti