ARTE POVERA ,BOURSE DE COMMERCE, PINAULT COLLECTION, PARIS
Arte Povera
BOURSE DE COMMERCE
Pinault Collection, PARIS
EXHIBITION: ARTE POVERA Until 20 January 2025
CURATED BY :Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Repoted by:NAZLI KOK AKBAS
NKA ART REPORTS,SWITZERLAND-FRANCE-ISTANBUL
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Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1967, Venere degli stracci (Venus of the Rags)(Polyurethane, polyester reinforced with fibre glass, textile) Pinault Collection
Until 20 January 2025, the Bourse de Commerce, PARIS, Pinault Collection is hosting a major exhibition dedicated to Arte Povera.
The exhibition includes more than 250 historical and contemporary works by emblematic artists of Arte Povera.
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Rotunda,Bourse de Commerce,januvary 2025(NKA,photography,2025)
Featuring some fifty masterpieces from the Pinault Collection, this exhibition highlights the work of thirteen emblematic Arte Povera artists.
ARTE POVERA in short:
In the mid-1960s, Italian artists began to create works of art using simple materials and techniques that made visible the physical forces of energy.
The term was coined by the Italian art critic Germano Celant.
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Mario Merz,Igloo Objet cache toi,1977.(NKA photography,January 2025)
"I made the igloo for three intertwined reasons:to abandon the idea of the planet as a vertical or horizontal, hence the idea of creating a surface independent of conventional surfaces. My idea of the igloo is a space absolute in itself: it is a hemisphere leaning on the earth. My interest is that the hemisphere is not geometric.
...I use a more subtle and hidden art, the art of observation. Observation without restraint and without the passivity of mere observation."*
(*Interview with Mario Merz, 1970)
What are the core manifestations of Arte Povera?
-Everyday life becomes meaningful, breaking down the hierarchies of 'art' and ordinary things.
-Ground Zero, ART=LIFE
-Dynamism and energy are embodied in the work.
-Complex and symbolic signs lose their meaning
Who are the emblematic Artists?
GILBERTO ZORIO (born in 1944)
EMILIO PRINI (1943-2016)
JANNIS KOUNELLIS (1926-2017)
MARIZA MERZ (1926-2019)
MARIO MERZ (1925-2003)
MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO (born in 1933)
ALIGHIERO BOETTI (1940-1994)
GIUSEPPE PENONE (born in 1947)
GIOVANNI ANSELMO (1034-2023)
PIER PAOLA CALZOLARI (born in 1943)
LUCIANO FABRO (1936-2007)
PINO PASCALI (1935-1968)
GIULIO PAOLINI (born 1940)
Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Anticipating many current beliefs for the practices of Arte Povera artists were generally critical of modernist high art, based instead on an appreciation of simple materials and techniques and a celebration of vitality through a focus on the metamorphosis of the elements. Arte Povera artists understood the human, the animal, the mineral and the vegetable as a relationship in co-evolution.
Arte Povera works used rural and urban materials - from trees to fire, from live animals to lead ingots - as well as materials related to art history, with no distinction between natural and artificial.
In the 2000s, where everything is abstracted and the technology through which we experience the world in a high-speed range of production and destruction of images, this is an era in some way as everything seemed connected, but this virtual connection is not so clear to most people.
There is a need to go back to basics, to think about "why matter matters?" and "why living an embodied life matters?"
Creating inner peace and calm through learning and recognising and embracing inner experience in an honest and curious way is what most people are looking for.
ARTE POVERA AT EMBLEMATIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE BOURCE DE COMMERCE
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Rotunda ,group exhibition (NKA Photography, January 2025)
The group exhibition in this rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce captures the collective spirit of the late 1960s in Italy.
Its circular architecture has been restored and transformed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, creating the ideal conditions for a dialogue between architecture and its context, heritage and the present.
In front of the Bourse de Commerce, a work by the artist Giuseppe Penone, Idee di pieta (Idea of Stone), welcomes visitors.
The sculpture combines a tree cast in bronze with river stones placed at the intersections of its branches.
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Giuseppe Penone ,Idee di pietra 1532kg di luce (Ideas of Stone-1532kg of light ),2010.
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Marisa Mers, Senza titolo,1997
Marisa Merz's Senza titolo is the fountain in the vestibule. Its gentle, rhythmic sound introduces visitors to the exhibition. The Exhibition welcomes visitors until 20 January.
Reported by ;Nazli Kok Akbas
NKA ART REPORTS SWITZERLAND-FRANCE-ISTANBUL
(Paris January 2025)
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