Arte Povera
アルテ・ポーヴェラ / 1967–1970s / Style / Italian Avant-garde
Uses non-precious, changing materials — earth, branches, cloth, stone, fire, metal — to intervene in art's commodification and industrial values.
Non-precious materials / Change and decay / Nature against industry / Bare assembly
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Not an aged-material mood. Verify the critique of value, time, labor and institutions.
- Further study
- Germano Celant / Mario Merz / Marisa Merz / Jannis Kounellis