GIOVANNI ANSELMO
2022-01-17From the end of the 60’s Anselmo drew inspiration from natural events and from the energy that arises from them, being one of the earliest founders of the Arte Povera movement.
His radical research combines materials of different nature in continuous dialogue or conflict, making the forces that animate the work of art almost tangible, manifesting themselves through the effects on the surrounding world.
This dualism translates into a continuous tension between visible and invisible, between power and act, between finite and infinite. Organic and inorganic, natural and technological, lightness and heaviness are just some of the dialectical couples in the work of the artist. In those couples the energy inherent in the material is blocked in that moment in which opposite phenomena collide and are zeroed out.
The exhibition presents a selection of representative works of the artist in a path dated from the end of the ‘60s to nowadays.
Opposite – Particolare, 1972/2013
Exhibition runs through to March 5th, 2022
Alfonso Artiaco
Piazzetta Nilo 7
80134 Napoli
Italy
