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Arte Povera. Creative breakthrough

Exhibition May 17 − August 16, 2018
The State Hermitage Museum presents an exhibition. «Arte Povera. Creative breakthrough». The exhibition features more than 50 works of Italian artists of the second half of the 20th century from Museum of Contemporary Art Castello di Rivoli(Rivoli – Turin, Italy), GAM Modern Art Galleries(Turin, Italy) and from private collections (Italy).

Arte povera («poor art») - artistic movement that originated in Italy at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. A distinctive feature is the desire of the authors to get away from the all-consuming technical progress towards handicraft creativity. Refusing industrial and high-tech materials in favor «the poor» and non-aesthetic, such as rags, newspapers, tree branches, the artists of Arte povera were determined to liberate art from the shackles of traditionalism.

The exhibition is located in the halls of the third floor of the Winter Palace, the decor of which was conceived just at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition includes works by Giovanni Anselmo, Aligiero Boetti, Gilberto Zorio, Pierre Paolo Calzolari, Yannis Cunellis, Mario Merz, Maris Mertz, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini.

Based on the materials of the official site State Hermitage Museum.

Photo 1-6. Report from the exhibition
Photo 7. Mario Mertz “What to do?”, 1968. Metal container, neon, wax; 14.4 x 45 x 17.8 cm, GAM Modern Art Gallery, Turin.
Photo 8. Gilberto Zorio “Hatred”, 1969. Lead, rope; 8 x 74 x 15 cm, Private collection, Turin.