Art dealers at Art Basel Paris are seizing the opportunity to bring several historic Arte Povera works to the fair, plus ‘post-Arte Povera’ creations influenced by them. The fair opens this week in ...

Like many aspiring artists, a young Jannis Kounellis had to leave his native Greece to pursue his creative dreams. It was the early 1950s, and it wasn't until Kounellis set foot on Italian soil that ...

A major new exhibition at Bourse de Commerce in Paris is shining a light on the movement. Installation view of the exhibition "Arte Povera," Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, 2024.

Arte Povera’s groundbreaking approach was, in many ways, a product of its time: Italy was freshly post-war, undergoing reconstruction under U.S.-supported Marshall Plan efforts, which spurred rapid ...

The famous igloos by Mario Merz in the "Arte Povera" exhibition at the Pinault museum's Bourse de Commerce in Paris. Sabine Glaubitz/dpa Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis, ...

As is the case with many other art historical movements, the most celebrated artists associated with Arte Povera are (mainly) dead, white, and male. Think of the infamous equine installations of ...

From brightly colored bud vases with narrow stems that look like glazed porcelain with hand scrawled designs to an orb that mimics the appearance of shiru-wan (Japanese soup bowls) traditionally made ...

The artist's latest exhibition, "To Step Beyond" at New York's Lévy Gorvy Dayan, showcases his restless and relentless examination of the Arte Povera tension between techné and nature. An installation ...

Mario Merz, “Spostamenti della Terra e della Luna su un asse” (“Movements of the Earth and the moon on a axis”) (2003), metal tubes, glass, stone, neon ...

IN one room of Hauser & Wirth’s New York gallery, kettles whistle and hum inside a glorious assemblage of rags by Michelangelo Pistoletto. A second room plays host to one of Mario Merz’s igloos, this ...