Zero to Infinity

by Flood, Richard; Morris, Frances; Walker Art Center; Tate Modern (Gallery)

• ISBN13: 9780935640694
• ISBN10: 093564069X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Walker Art Center

Summary

Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972focuses on one of the most innovative and influential art movements of the postwar era. Arte Povera came of age in the context of the ''Italian miracle'' economic boom and the subsequent student and workers revolts of 1968, motivated by an urge to revolt not only against the primacy of painting in the postwar period, but also against the emerging consumer culture. This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue provide a highly comprehensive retrospective of the Arte Povera movement as a historical and aesthetic phenomenon that crossed a wide range of disciplines, including sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, film and performance. The exhibition traces Arte Povera's genesis within the artistic and political context of Italy to its positioning within the broader international context of postwar artistic practices, a moment marked by the participation of the Arte Povera group in the 1972 Documenta Vexhibition in Kassel. This essential new catalogue is designed by the Walker Art Center's award-winning design department, and includes a wide range of essays by international scholars and curators, as well as rare historical documentation, in an unprecedented re-examination of the Arte Povera movement.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Acknowledgments	p. 7
Introduction: Zero to Infinity	p. 9
Thrust into the Whirlwind: Italian Art Before Arte Povera	p. 21
Spaces of Arte Povera	p. 41
Reading Arte Povera	p. 67
Italy in the 1960s: Spaces, Places, Trajectories	p. 89
Now We Begin	p. 109
Contributors	p. 128
Timeline, 1962-1972	p. 129
Artists' Works and Selected Writings	p. 177
Giovanni Anselmo	p. 177
Alighiero Boetti	p. 187
Pier Paolo Caizolari	p. 205
Luciano Fabro	p. 213
Piero Gilardi	p. 229
Jannis Kounellis	p. 237
Mario Merz	p. 251
Marisa Merz	p. 261
Giulio Paolini	p. 267
Pino Pascali	p. 285
Giuseppe Penone	p. 295
Michelangelo Pistoletto	p. 305
Emilio Prini	p. 317
Gilberto Zorlo	p. 322
Selected Exhibition Histories	p. 337
Selected Bibliography	p. 351
Exhibition Checklist	p. 355
Index	p. 360
Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 364
Reproduction Credits	p. 364
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