Arte Povera

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Arte Povera is an Italian avant-garde art movement from the late 1960s characterized by the use of everyday or “poor” materials to challenge traditional notions of art and value.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Arte Povera canonical 10
Arte Povera movement 2
Arte Povera (1969 book) 1

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Statements (59)

Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement
avant-garde movement
characteristic anti-elitist stance toward art
critique of consumerism
critique of industrialization
emphasis on process over finished object
fusion of art and everyday life
rejection of traditional artistic materials
site-specific installations
use of ephemeral materials
use of raw, unprocessed matter
coinedBy Germano Celant
countryOfOrigin Italy
field visual art
genre contemporary art
hasKeyFigure Alighiero Boetti
Germano Celant
Giovanni Anselmo
Giulio Paolini
Jannis Kounellis
Luciano Fabro
Giuseppe Penone
surface form: Mario Merz

Marisa Merz
Germano Celant
surface form: Michelangelo Pistoletto

Pier Paolo Calzolari
Pino Pascali
hasLanguageOfName Italian
hasTypeOfWork installation
mixed-media assemblage
performance
sculpture
inception 1967
late 1960s
influenced contemporary sculpture
environmental art
installation art
relational aesthetics
influencedBy Conceptual art
Dada
Italian postwar politics
Marxist thought
Minimalism
locationOfFormation Genoa
Rome
Turin
mainSubject critique of economic value in art
political and social change in 1960s Italy
relationship between nature and culture
movement conceptual art
postminimalism
opposedTo formalism in art
traditional sculpture
periodOfActivity 1970s
late 1960s
translationOfName “poor art”
usesMaterial everyday materials
industrial materials
organic materials
“poor” materials

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Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC) hasCollectionFocus Arte Povera
subject surface form: Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain
MAMAC hasCollection Arte Povera
Giuseppe Penone movement Arte Povera
Giuseppe Penone associatedWith Arte Povera
this entity surface form: Arte Povera movement
Giuseppe Penone influencedBy Arte Povera
this entity surface form: Arte Povera principles
Germano Celant movement Arte Povera
Germano Celant notableWork Arte Povera
this entity surface form: Arte Povera (1969 book)
Jannis Kounellis movement Arte Povera
Jannis Kounellis artisticMovement Arte Povera
Giovanni Anselmo movement Arte Povera
Giovanni Anselmo artisticMovement Arte Povera
Alighiero Boetti movement Arte Povera
Alighiero Boetti influencedBy Arte Povera
this entity surface form: Arte Povera movement
Marisa Merz movement Arte Povera