Arte povera. Appunti per la storia
The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Lia Riva, and the Association Dante Alighieri Monaco present a screening of the documentary “Arte povera. Appunti per la storia” (2023) in the presence of its producer Michele Bongiorno.
Arte povera. Appunti per la storia
Projected in Italian with English subtitles, 1h34
A film by Andrea Bettinetti with the voice of Giuseppe Cederne.
Produced by Michele Bongiorno ( Good Day Films) with Sky Arte, in collaboration with Gruppo Unipol and Azimut Capital Management, and with the support of Collezione Olgiati, Galleria Christian Stein, and the Film Commission Torino Piemonte.
On November 23, 1967, a young Genoese art critic, Germano Celant, published the manifesto “Arte Povera, notes pour une guérilla” in the magazine Flash art, a profound critique of the consumerist process that made the artist a mere producer of objects; Celant brought together artists who wished to privilege the process over the product, to use materials hitherto excluded from the artistic process, and to aim for essentiality. It’s a movement that looks philosophically to Grotowski’s poor theater, but which Celant develops with artists with whom he dialogues, experiments and organizes exhibitions, profoundly influencing the development of contemporary art in Italy and abroad.
The documentary traces its birth through the stories of artists, gallerists and critics: Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gilberto Zorio, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Giovanni Anselmo, Michelle Coudray, Lia Rumma, Antonio Tucci Russo, Fabio Sargentini, Carolyn Christov. -Bakargiev, Beatrice Merz, Silvia Fabro, Paolo Mussat Sartor, Gianfranco Benedetti and Giorgio Colombo are the artists who were part of the movement, the gallerists who organized the exhibitions, the photographers who immortalized their works, the family members who shared their lives… . Each of them remembers with pride having been part of a free artistic movement, which still today possesses a disruptive force that transcends national borders, and which was nourished by interpersonal relationships, by the desire to open up new horizons, by galleries conceived and managed as places of encounter and exchange. Particularly valuable is an unpublished conversation with Germano Celant, held during the 2019 Jannis Kounellis retrospective at the Prada Foundation in Cà Corner, Venice.
