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 Arte
Povera -Works and Documents from the Goetz Collection 1957 until today |
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| From October 2 to December 7, 1997 | |
| The Kunsthalle Nünrberg shows with its new exhibition Arte Povera a representative survey of the Italien art movement of the sixties. All exhibits come from the Munich based contemporary art collection of Ingvild Goetz, who began as early as in the seventies to collect the works of the Arte Povera. | |
| The term Arte Povera was formed by the Italian critic Germano Celant. By using this term, he summed up what a number of young artists in northern Italy independently were interested in. In a critical attitude towards the conventional, hermetic idea of art, and towards the established art market, the artists wanted to anchor their works in reality. In constrast to movements like Pop Art and Minimal Art, originating from the USA, the intendend presence in these new Italian works do not lack historical references but acknowledge an Italian-European cultural heritage by using quotations and metaphors. |  |
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The works of Arte Povera do not depict the world, but re-create the world in poetic stories and unexpected constellations. By using the "poorness" of materials from nature and life, the artists create works in an immediate approach and with lots of not calculable aspects. The works remain open and changeable. Fire burns and scorches, water expands and freezes, air condensates into hoarfrost, horses breathe, field crops grow and dies, neon flows like energey through painting, gold and wax stiffen and seal. The play with the processes of materials, with their fragility and the vanity of elementary matter mingles naturally with achievements of civilization. The survey of works from the movement of Arte Povera points out, that this art movement has already become an almost classical avantgarde-movement after the 1960s. For contemporary art, the impact of Arte Povera is still essential in its approach towards the fluent borderlines between art and life. The exhibition comprises of works from the major artists of Arte Povera like Giovanni Anselmo (*1934), Alighiero Boetti (*1940 - d. 1994), Pier Paolo Calzolari (1943), Luciano Fabro (*1936), Jannis Kounellis (*1936), Mario Merz (*1925), Giulio Paolini (*1940), Pino Pascali (*1935 - d. 1968), Guiseppe Penone (*1947), Michelangelo Pistoletto (*1933), Emilio Prini (*1943) und Gilberto Zorio (*1944). The exhibition is a collaboration between the Museum Neue Weserburg in Bremen, where it was shown from June 22 to September 7, 1997. In 1998, further venues of these comprehensive show are going to be Cologne, Vienna and Göteborg. On the occasion of the exhibition a catalgoue was published which illustrates all works from the Arte-Povera section of the collection Goetz, including consise annotations (provenance, bibliography) of each work. There are several new texts and interviews, and seperate entries on each artist. The catalogue consists of 248 pages, 263 ill. (150 in full color). It is available at the Kunsthalle's book shop at 48 DM. Opening Hours Guided Tours/Gallery Talks Admission Further information/visual materials |
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