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 ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1933, in Biella (Piedmont).
Painter, sculptor, installation artist, photographer, writer.
Arte Povera.
The son of an art restorer, Michelangelo Pistoletto lives and works in Turin, and also teaches at the academy of fine arts in Vienna.Pistoletto's early works, painted during the 1950s, consisted of self-portraits against a monochrome background that revealed an interest in the work of Francis Bacon. He made his name from ...
