[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] Giuseppe Penone is an artist who works with natural elements and mostly trees. His care for nature and for life is overwhelming and very present in his artworks. We talked about another work of his in this […]
Tag: arte povera
DIREZIONE (DIRECTION), GIOVANNI ANSELMO, 1967
When you look at this artwork, what you see is a raw block of stone with the shape of a triangle, but if you look closely enough you will see a little compass at the base of it. The compass points towards the north, and this is the direction in which the artwork should be […]
ARTE POVERA – #ZoomOnMovements
Have you ever heard of Arte Povera? Have you ever wondered why it is not translated from Italian (it literally means “poor art”)? You will discover everything in the following paragraphs! Historical and artistic background The Arte Povera movement was born in Italy (you didn’t guess this, did you!) in 1967. Why do we have […]