Arte Povera

British  

/ ˌarte poˈvera /

noun

1. a style of minimal art originating in Italy in the late 1960s, making use of cheap and commonly available materials such as stones, newspapers etc

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Etymology

Origin of Arte Povera

C20: Italian, literally: poor art

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Arte Povera

The "Venus of the Rags", a symbol of the Arte Povera movement which counts Pistoletto among its leading members, shows the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility standing next to a pile of rags.

From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2023

Back in 1967, Arte Povera artists in Italy, the radicals of their time, hung out at the Piper Club, a discothèque of, by and for the avant-garde in Turin.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

I wondered about the high-tech approach and whether it was somehow out of place, given that Arte Povera — literally “impoverished art” — had commonplace materials as one of its core tenets.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2020

The Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto — a leading member of the Arte Povera movement, which sought to strip art to its essentials — has been known to take sledgehammers to his famous mirror works.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2020

Marisa Merz, the only woman affiliated with Italy’s Arte Povera movement, and subject of a solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum in 2017, has died at the age of 93.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2019