Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama “I convert the energy of life into the dots of the universe”, are the words which Kusama uses to sum up her artistic approach, to express her feeling in painting what has by now become her trademark: a series of colored balls spread over each object....
Gilberto Zorio

Gilberto Zorio

Gilberto Zorio Gilberto Zorio, born in Andorno Micca in Piedmont in 1944, is one of the most influential artists of Italian Arte Povera. After taking part in the movement’s founding exhibitions curated by Germano Celant (La Bertesca in Genoa; Arsenali of Amalfi, De...
Georges Mathieu

Georges Mathieu

Georges Mathieu  “Georges Mathieu’s revival has begun” was the headline in “Le Figaro” on 24 September 2018. Georges Mathieu (1921-2012), a crucial artist of the ‘40s and ‘50s, the inventor of “lyrical abstraction”, one of the protagonists of international Art...
Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis This Greek artist (he was born in Piraeus in 1936, but lived in Rome where he died in 2017) was one of the protagonists of Arte Povera, where, according to Germano Celant’s original definition, “povera” stands not so much for the poverty of the...
Claudio Olivieri

Claudio Olivieri

Claudio Olivieri An introspective vision of art based exclusively on the artist’s creativity and the original tools of painting. These are the features which Claudio Olivieri obstinately pursued throughout his career. Olivieri was one of the main representatives of...
Giulio Turcato

Giulio Turcato

Giulio Turcato If we look at his participation in international movements and exhibitions, the career of Giulio Turcato is one of the richest and most important. He was born in Mantua in 1912 and died in Rome in 1995. Just after the war he adhered to the Fronte Nuovo...
Valerio Adami

Valerio Adami

Valerio Adami Valerio Adami was born in Bologna in 1935. He began to paint at a very young age and constantly travelled around Europe, Asia and America. 1951 was a fundamental year in his personal and artistic development. He met and associated with Oscar Kokoschka...
Luigi Ontani

Luigi Ontani

Luigi Ontani Born in Vergato in Emilia in 1943, a few months ago he appeared in the news involuntarily because of a public fountain donated to his home village which was vandalized and attacked by populist political figures due to the naked faun standing in the middle...
Michelangelo Pistoletto

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Michelangelo Pistoletto Michelangelo Pistoletto Born in Biella in 1933, he is a key figure of Arte Povera. Not only is he part of it but to a certain extent he helped create it. His career started however on a Pop note. His self-portrait was the main theme of his...
Christo

Christo

Christo Christo (born in 1935 in Gabrovo in Bulgaria but with first a French then an American career) is internationally famous with his wife Jeanne-Claude for his environmental works, but they derive from a procedure which he first used for small objects. They were...