Arte Povera

Eventually named "Arte Povera," or poor art, by an Italian art critic, the movement used just about every material imaginable in just about every form possible.

In Turin, Merz's Weird and Wonderful Numbers and Materials 2010

It's evident from the moment we walk into the Barbara Gladstone Gallery that the work possesses a gravitas and substantive materiality not seen in sculpture since the heyday of the Postminimalists and Arte Povera artists of the 1970s.

G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011

Bettina Prentice: Certain artists in the Arte Povera have been neglected for a long time and smart collectors have been quietly buying work in the past eighteen months.

Meredith Barnett: Fall For Art, Affordably Meredith Barnett 2011

Bettina Prentice: Certain artists in the Arte Povera have been neglected for a long time and smart collectors have been quietly buying work in the past eighteen months.

Meredith Barnett: Fall For Art, Affordably Meredith Barnett 2011

Mr. Witkovsky has chosen other artists from the Italian movement of Arte Povera not often mentioned in histories of photography.

Snapshot of a Movement Richard B. Woodward 2012

At least one pair of sellers plans to offer up something different: Belgian collectors Anton and Annick Herbert are selling off 35 pieces of minimalist, conceptual and Arte Povera work by artists like Carl Andre and Mario Merz at Christie's on Nov. 9.

Pop Art to Take Center Stage at Christie's Kelly Crow 2011

It's evident from the moment we walk into the Barbara Gladstone Gallery that the work possesses a gravitas and substantive materiality not seen in sculpture since the heyday of the Postminimalists and Arte Povera artists of the 1970s.

G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011

Bettina Prentice: Certain artists in the Arte Povera have been neglected for a long time and smart collectors have been quietly buying work in the past eighteen months.

Meredith Barnett: Fall For Art, Affordably Meredith Barnett 2011

It's evident from the moment we walk into the Barbara Gladstone Gallery that the work possesses a gravitas and substantive materiality not seen in sculpture since the heyday of the Postminimalists and Arte Povera artists of the 1970s.

G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011

Bettina Prentice: Certain artists in the Arte Povera have been neglected for a long time and smart collectors have been quietly buying work in the past eighteen months.

Meredith Barnett: Fall For Art, Affordably Meredith Barnett 2011