Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1926, in Milan; died 1981.
Collage artist, mixed media. Artists' books.
Arte Povera, Conceptual Art.
Vicenzo Agnetti's work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions of international contemporary art, including Documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany (1972) and Biennale in Venice (...
Italian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 17 July 1947, in Milan.
Painter, sculptor, theorist.
Arte Povera, Conceptual Art.
Adriano Altamira put forward his first critical observations on the phenomena of vision in 1967. Next he began to use minimalist structures, plaits and interlacings, like some of the methods used in France by the ...
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 4 August 1948, in Paris.
Installation artist.
Conceptual Art, Arte Povera.
Bernard Amiard's work can be compared to that of Arte Povera. He combines substances, texture and image. He mostly uses neon as a graphic medium. He leans towards a redefinition of objects as brute materials and their reciprocating relationships....
Italian, 20th century, male.
Active in Turin.
Born 1934, in Borgofranco d'Ivrea.
Installation artist.
Conceptual Art, Arte Povera.
Giovanni Anselmo is one of the exponents of Arte Povera (It. 'poor art'), the singular movement that was expressed in many physical forms. It was founded in Italy and remained Italian in character, despite obviously influencing conceptual artists in other countries. Arte Povera falls within the vast movement of conceptual art that swept over the art scene in the 1960s, historically a time of social, political and ethical protest. Arte Povera challenged art itself above all else. A Zen influence, conscious or subconscious depending on the work, is also discernible in the invitation to contemplate a pile of pebbles presented as a work or a non-work of art, or any other object that the eyes and the mind regularly take for granted.The term Arte Povera was coined by Germano Celant (the movement's main instigator and historian) in ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1940, in Turin; died 24 April 1994, in Rome.
Mixed media, textile artist.
Arte Povera, Conceptual Art.
Alighiero e Boetti lived and worked in Rome. He is considered to be one of the founders, in 1967, of the Arte Povera (Impoverished Art) movement, to each of whose group exhibitions he routinely contributed. In ...
German, 20th century, male.
Active in Belgium.
Born 1940, in Düsseldorf.
Sculptor (mixed media).
Arte Povera, Conceptual Art.
Bernd Lohaus initially worked in a carpentry workshop, then began an apprenticeship as a stone-cutter in 1960. After the show Fluxus, which brought together John Cage, Ben, Allen Kaprow, Nam June Paik and Joseph Beuys among others, he studied under Beuys at the school of fine arts in Düsseldorf ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 13 November 1940, in Gagli di Pesaro Urbino.
Installation artist, performance artist.
Conceptual Art, Arte Povera.
Since 1961, Mattiacci has taken part in a large number of group exhibitions, among them the 1961 Biennale of art in metal held in Gubbio; the exhibition of young artists held at the gallery of modern art in Rome in ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1 January 1925, in Milan; died 9 November 2003, in Milan.
Painter, installation artist, sculptor, draughtsman, mixed media.
Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Visual Poetry.
Mario Merz spent two years studying medicine at the University of Turin, during which time he also tried his hand at Concretist poetry and attended courses at the institute of fine arts. However, he soon turned against any kind of formal education. In 1945, shortly before the fall of Mussolini, he was imprisoned under the Fascist regime as a political activist. On his release he moved to Paris, where he became familiar with the work of artists such as Dubuffet, Fautrier and Pollock and the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. In 1959, he met his future wife Marisa, and in the mid-1960s he returned to live and work in Turin....
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 5 November 1940, in Genoa.
Painter (mixed media), collage artist, sculptor, draughtsman.
Conceptual Art, Arte Povera.
Paolini lives and works in Turin and Paris. His artistic activity has been an enquiry into the multiple aspects of art. At the beginning of the 1960s, he created presentations of blank canvases, of the reverse side of canvases, supports and frames. Initially restricted to just the geometry of the canvas, his later work tended to include the physical space in which the works are displayed....
