Turning your eyes around, around Arte Povera 1960-1975. Photography, film, video.
EXB Workshop, Jeu de Paume, LE BAL| N° d'inventaire | 27004 |
| Format | 22 x 23 |
| Détails | 420 p., numerous black and white illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782365113397 |
This book and the accompanying exhibition take a fresh look at the Arte Povera movement, rarely associated with photographic and filmic mediums. They invite the viewer to "turn their eyes inside out" through a new interpretation of this artistic movement, also placing it in the social and political context of the time in Italy. The result of extensive research in artists' studios, and private and public collections, the book reveals the extraordinary richness of a period in which Italian artists were among the most important interpreters of the transformation of visual languages.
The book is structured around four themes: body, experience, image and theatre. It presents more than 300 works by major figures of arte povera, including Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luigi Ghirri, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto… It also offers a visual immersion in the political and cultural context of the time with portfolios (printed on colored paper) dedicated to cinema, theatre, political events, happenings and press extracts presenting the major sociocultural issues of the time.
Several texts illuminate the visual corpus at the end of the book: an essay by Giuliano Sergio on this period of Italian artistic effervescence in the 1960s and 1970s in a context of media development, a text by Elena Volpato on artist video, followed by a detailed chronology of the movement as well as biographical notes on the artists.
The title "Reverser ses yeux" is a reference to the eponymous work by Giuseppe Penone, Rovesciare i proprie occhi , which appears in the book and the exhibition.
This book accompanies the exhibition jointly presented at the Jeu de Paume and the BAL from October 2022 followed by the Milan Triennale in 2023, curated by Quentin Bajac, director of the Jeu de Paume, Diane Dufour, director of the BAL, and Giuliano Sergio, independent curator, with the help of Lorenza Bravetta, associate curator and curator at the Milan Triennale.
This book and the accompanying exhibition take a fresh look at the Arte Povera movement, rarely associated with photographic and filmic mediums. They invite the viewer to "turn their eyes inside out" through a new interpretation of this artistic movement, also placing it in the social and political context of the time in Italy. The result of extensive research in artists' studios, and private and public collections, the book reveals the extraordinary richness of a period in which Italian artists were among the most important interpreters of the transformation of visual languages.
The book is structured around four themes: body, experience, image and theatre. It presents more than 300 works by major figures of arte povera, including Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luigi Ghirri, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto… It also offers a visual immersion in the political and cultural context of the time with portfolios (printed on colored paper) dedicated to cinema, theatre, political events, happenings and press extracts presenting the major sociocultural issues of the time.
Several texts illuminate the visual corpus at the end of the book: an essay by Giuliano Sergio on this period of Italian artistic effervescence in the 1960s and 1970s in a context of media development, a text by Elena Volpato on artist video, followed by a detailed chronology of the movement as well as biographical notes on the artists.
The title "Reverser ses yeux" is a reference to the eponymous work by Giuseppe Penone, Rovesciare i proprie occhi , which appears in the book and the exhibition.
This book accompanies the exhibition jointly presented at the Jeu de Paume and the BAL from October 2022 followed by the Milan Triennale in 2023, curated by Quentin Bajac, director of the Jeu de Paume, Diane Dufour, director of the BAL, and Giuliano Sergio, independent curator, with the help of Lorenza Bravetta, associate curator and curator at the Milan Triennale.