The term Arte Povera was introduced by the Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in 1967. His pioneering texts and a series of key exhibitions provided a collective identity for a number of young Italian artists based in Turin, Milan, Genoa and Rome. They were working in radically new ways, breaking with the past and entering a challenging dialogue with trends in Europe and America.

Artists

• Giovanni Anselmo
• Alighiero e Boetti
• Pier Paolo Calzolari
• Rossella Cosentino
• Luciano Fabro
• Jannis Kounellis
• Mario Merz
• Marisa Merz
• Giulio Paolini
• Pino Pascali
• Giuseppe Penone
• Michelangelo Pistoletto
• Gilberto Zorio

Italian art | Modern art

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