#02
Dec. 2024

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IN ITALY FOUR NEW DISPLAYS

FOR TIMELESS MASTERPIECES

Forty Years of Castello di Rivoli

Ouverture 1984. The film that recounts its opening exhibition.

Ouverture I - full video

Ouverture II - full video

Ouverture III - full video

The GAM of Turin in Its New Splendid Look
A renewed museum route between collection and "intruders"

Under the new direction of Chiara Bertola, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM) of Turin has revamped its permanent exhibition. Alongside one of Europe’s most significant collections of artist films and videos, the collection features an extraordinary core of Arte Povera works. In the new layout, visitors can view Attaccapanni (di Napoli) by Luciano Fabro, as well as works by Jannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Pino Pascali. Don’t miss the section dedicated to the “Living Depot,” which challenges the traditional museum concept in favor of a hybrid experience between storage and exhibition space.

GAM - Galleria civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

Via Magenta 31, Torino

Magazines /

What is on our desk

11.10.2024

Why the Revived Interest in Arte Povera Is a Salve for Our Instagram-Addled Era

Devorah Lautner - Artnet

29.11.2024

Quarant'anni di Castello di Rivoli:

Rudi Fuchs

Ida Gianelli

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Andrea Bellini

Francesca Interlenghi e Matteo Mottin - Il Giornale dell'Arte

07.12.2024

La mostra di Michelangelo Pistoletto alla Reggia di Caserta

Antonio di Mino - Elle Decor

21.11.2024

Mario Merz. Il numero è un animale vivente

Emanuela Zanon - Juliet

17.11.2024

Arte povera is back: The unexpected boom in ‘poor’ art that the rich admire

Álex Vicente - El País

16.10.2024

L’enigmatico Emilio Prini, che rifuggiva il sistema dell’arte

Camilla Bertoni - Il Giornale dell'Arte

Forty Years of the Castello di Rivoli

Museo del Novecento. Arte Povera in Milano

MART. A New Exhibition for the Collection

The Castello di Rivoli - Contemporary Art Museum celebrates its fortieth anniversary with a revamped exhibition project. "Ouverture", sharing the title of its inaugural exhibition from January 19, 1984, curated by then-director Rudi Fuchs, focuses on artistic developments post-2000. The Castello di Rivoli collection houses some of the most significant Arte Povera works, including Catasta and Sedia e Scala by Alighiero Boetti, Scalea by Pier Paolo Calzolari, Primo appunto sul tempo by Giulio Paolini, and the wire and wool Untitled by Jannis Kounellis.

Castello di Rivoli

Piazza Mafalda di Savoia, Rivoli (TO)

The Museo del Novecento in Milan unveils a new arrangement for its section dedicated to Italian art from the 1960s to the latest acquisitions from the 1990s. Starting with works by Piero Manzoni, the renovated space—offering a stunning view of Piazza del Duomo—includes pieces by Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, and Gilberto Zorio. Highlights include iconic works by Luciano Fabro from the 1960s, such as Pavimento Tautologia (1967) and Tondo e rettangolo (1964). The final room features the next generation of Italian artists: Stefano Arienti, Liliana Moro, and Maurizio Cattelan.

Museo del Novecento

Piazza Duomo 8, Milano

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto has recently inaugurated a new exhibition for its collection, with a section dedicated to Arte Povera. The display includes 400 works spanning the 19th to the 21st century, emphasizing the history of Italian art. Among the highlights are a self-portrait on a mirror by Michelangelo Pistoletto (1962-1963) and Giovanni Anselmo’s enigmatic photograph Entering the Work (1971).

MART, Rovereto

Corso Bettini 43, Rovereto (TN)

AROUND THE WORLD: MUST-SEE ART PLACES AND COLLECTIONS TO VISIT (AGAIN AND AGAIN)

Nishi-Shinjuku Complex in Tokyo Celebrates Thirty Years

Among skyscrapers, monumental works by Arte Povera artists

Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, NY

The American Home of Arte Povera

Thirty years ago, Giulio Paolini, Luciano Fabro, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Giuseppe Penone, and Gilberto Zorio completed public installations in Tokyo’s Nishi-Shinjuku district. This highly urbanized area, one of Japan’s first to promote skyscraper construction in the 1970s, features Arte Povera works centered around a grand plaza. At the heart lies Giulio Paolini’s Meridiana, accompanied by Hierapolis, Astronomical Clock, and Kaleidoscope, exploring architectural vision and perspectives. Nearby, Le stelle di Tokyo, an installation by Gilberto Zorio, adorns the sidewalk, while Luciano Fabro’s marble work I Passi, Giuseppe Penone’s Unghia e marmo, and Hidetoshi Nagasawa’s Pleiadi grace the adjacent fountain.

Shinjuku i-Land

6 Chome-5-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo

Magazzino’s museum project has a clear mission: showcasing great Italian contemporary art in the United States. Located in Cold Spring, just an hour from New York City, this remarkable exhibition space houses a collection with Arte Povera at its core. Through its extraordinary displays, it offers a vivid representation of the movement that defined Italian art in the latter half of the 20th century. Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Gilberto Zorio converge in a space dedicated to appreciation and research, keeping alive the aesthetic and cultural essence of each artist's work. Alongside the collection and exhibitions, Magazzino Italian Art spearheads the ambitious Germano Celant Research Center, a scholarly hub with over 5,000 publications dedicated to the renowned Italian art critic.

Magazzino Italian Art
2700 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY

Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati Collection

Lugano

Collection Hubert Looser

Kunsthaus Zürich

Centre Pompidou

Respirare l'ombra by Giuseppe Penone

At the Centre Pompidou, the focus on the era of neo-avant-garde movements highlights a pivotal moment in art history. A moment when artists moved beyond visual expression to explore new models of perception, concept, and behavior. The Arte Povera section features standout works by Giuseppe Penone, Jannis Kounellis, and Mario Merz. Penone’s Respirare l’ombra (1999-2000) stands out as an environmental installation made of laurel leaves, engaging visitors with its olfactory dimension, complemented by a bronze sculpture mounted on the walls.

Musée Pompidou

Place Georges-Pompidou, Paris

The Chipperfield Building at Kunsthaus Zürich houses the Hubert Looser collection, offering a unique view of 20th-century art, where Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Arte Povera intersect. The exhibition's focus is on Arte Povera, with works that evoke a connection to nature, including Giuseppe Penone's piece from the Respirare l'ombra series (2005), and Mario Merz's wall installation from the Vento preistorico dalle montagne gelate series (1983).

The new exhibition titled Nature - Myth - Abstraction features 70 works from the collection, displayed in the museum's spaces dedicated to private collections.

Kunsthaus Zürich
Heimplatz 1/5, Zürich

Among the most prestigious collections of contemporary Italian art, the Olgiati Collection undoubtedly stands as a pinnacle in the international collecting scene. Starting with Futurism, of which it holds not only highly valuable works but also one of the most comprehensive bibliographic collections dedicated to the movement, the collection progresses through key figures such as Morandi, Fontana, Manzoni, Burri, and Accardi, and continues with Arte Povera artists like Anselmo, Boetti, Calzolari, Fabro, Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz, Paolini, Pascali, Penone, Pistoletto, and Zorio. It then moves on to include newer generations of international artists.

A portion of the collection is open to the public at Spazio -1 in Lugano, and until January 12, it is accompanied by a temporary exhibition dedicated to Klein and Arman, Le Vide et Le Plein.

Giancarlo and Danna Olgiati Collection
Spazio -1, Riva Caccia 1, Lugano

Publications / What we are reading

Vita di Alighiero Boetti

Giorgio Colombo

Giorgio Colombo followed Alighiero Boetti for 30 years, regularly photographing him and capturing nearly all of his exhibitions, works, studios, career, and family.

By publishing this collection, Colombo succeeds in conveying Alighiero's thoughts, allowing the public to delve ever deeper into Boetti's infinite world.

Forma Editore, 2024

Pier Paolo Calzolari

Ideal home

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Starting from the manifesto written in 1968, Casa ideale reveals the poetic scope of Pier Paolo Calzolari’s work: a programmatic text that became a vehicle for a series of ideas that guided the artist’s practice, clearly outlining his intentions and evoking multiple interpretative possibilities. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the NMNM – Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.

Humboldt Books, 2024

FOUR ARTE POVERA DOCUMENTARIES TO STREAM

La rivoluzione siamo noi

The docufilm on art in Italy and culture during the decade 1967–1977. Directed by Ilaria Freccia, the film takes viewers on a journey through one of the most radical and controversial periods in Italian history, narrated by some of the artists and gallerists who most profoundly shaped that cultural shift: Marina Abramović, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Andy Warhol, Luigi Ontani, Pino Pascali, Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, and Joseph Beuys. The story unfolds through rare archival footage and images. The film is accompanied by an exhibition and catalogue of the same title, curated by Ludovico Pratesi.

Arte povera. Appunti per la storia

Arte povera. Notes for History, a documentary by Andrea Bettinetti, is being presented again during the seventeenth edition of "Lo Schermo dell'Arte" in Florence. The film delves into the extraordinary journey of Arte Povera, narrated by Giuseppe Caderna and enriched by numerous interviews with the movement's key figures, including artists, curators, gallerists, and archivists. What emerges is a kaleidoscope of experiences and attitudes, of life stories and timeless works, painting a vivid portrait of the most celebrated Italian art movement of the late 20th century. The subject was developed by the director in collaboration with Germano Celant.

De Chirico e Paolini. Il viandante e la sua ombra.

In the passing of the baton from Giorgio de Chirico to Giulio Paolini, de Chirico’s metaphysical approach transforms into Paolini’s conceptual metaphysics, where for both, the “painting” becomes a theater.
Seekers of enigmas, de Chirico and Paolini are also bound by their shared connection to metaphysical Turin and their distancing from reality to allow the apparition to surface. In the labyrinthine spatial and temporal interplay that unites the two artists, the recurring theme of the “painting within the painting” emerges as an image of vertigo within the abyss of time. Interwoven with this new production are sequences from Franco Simongini’s historical documentaries on Giorgio de Chirico and Giulio Paolini: archival materials, carefully preserved by Rai, become windows that open onto the past.

Intorno a Marisa

The film explores the domestic aspect of her art, the unique rhythm and approach with which the artist weaves her art into her life. The film also features the previously unheard voice of Marisa herself, reflecting on her life against the backdrop of her studio-homes in Turin and Milan, as well as the 2012 exhibition dedicated to her by the Fondazione Merz. Surrounding Marisa, a chorus of voices enriches this narrative: friends, artists, art historians, curators, and gallerists who were part of her story and shared in it.

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