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Arte Povera


Arte Povera
Term coined by the Genoese critic Germano Celant in 1967 for a group of Italian artists who, from the late 1960s, attempted to break down the ‘dichotomy between art and life’ (Celant: Flash Art, 1967), mainly through the creation of happenings and sculptures made from everyday materials. Such an attitude was opposed to the conventional role of art merely to reflect reality. The first Arte Povera exhibition was held at the Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, ... (view more)

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Artists Associated with Arte Povera — 14 artists:

Giovanni Anselmo
Alighiero e Boetti
Alberto Burri
Pier Paolo Calzolari
Luciano Fabro
Piero Gilardi
Jannis Kounellis

Piero Manzoni
Mario Merz
Marisa Merz
Giulio Paolini
Pino Pascali
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Emilio Vedova

Auction Houses that have sold Arte Povera works - 63

Anaf
Antique Helper
Arno Winterberg
Artcurial
Auction Phila
Auktionskammare Uppsala
Binoche
Bloomsbury Book Auction
Bonham's
Bonhams & Butterfields
Brerarte
Briest
Bukowski
Burstow & Hewett
Butterfield, Butterfield & Dunning
Catherine Charbonneaux
Champin-Lombrail-Gautier
Chayette-Clamels
Christie's
Clark Cierlak
Cornette de Saint-Cyr
Damien Leclere
Dawson and Nye
de Vuyst
Deauville Auction, Le Houelleur
Dorotheum
Est-Ouest Auctions Co.,Ltd
Farsetti
Finarte
FischerAuktionen
Frea Arte
Freeman's

Germann
Gorringes
Guy Loudmer
Hauswedell-Nolte
Karl-Faber
Ketterer
Koller
Kunsthallen
Le Roy
Lempertz
Nagel Auktionen
Palais des Beaux-Arts
Pandolfini
Perrin-Royere-Lajeunesse
Phillips de Pury & Company
Piasa
Pillon
Pitti
Quittenbaum (Munich)
Rago Arts and Auction Center
San Marco Casa D'Aste Spa
Schoppmann & Partner
Semenzato
Sotheby's
Swann Galleries
Tajan
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Van Ham
Venator & Hanstein
Villa Grisebach
Wright