Germano Celant
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Germano Celant (11 September 1940 – 29 April 2020) was an Italian art historian, critic, and curator who coined the term "Arte Povera" (poor art) in the 1967 Flash Art piece "Appunti Per Una Guerriglia" ("Notes on a guerrilla war"),[1] which would become the manifesto for the Arte Povera artistic and political movement. He wrote many articles and books on the subject.
Work
Germano Celant was born in Genoa, Italy. He attended the University of Genoa, where he studied history of art with Eugenio Battisti. In 1963 he worked as assistant editor for Marcatrè, a Genoa-based magazine about architecture, art, design, music and literature founded by Rodolfo Vitone,[2] Eugenio Battisti, Paolo Portoghesi, Diego Carpitella, Maurizio Calvesi, Umberto Eco, Vittorio Gelmetti and Edoardo Sanguineti. In 1967, his manifesto of Arte Povera, Notes for a Guerilla War, was published in Flash Art. The concept of Arte Povera seemed to be that in Italy art was quite different from America due to the different circumstances at the time. Italy was going through an industrial period but was not really making the pop art that coincided with the established economy as opposed to American artists like Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and other pop artists. The Italian artists were going for a humanism in their art and not for the coolness and calculated machine-made imagery of the pop artists.
"Arte Povera" was essentially formed around two nuclei: one in Turin, with artists such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Giulio Paolini, Giovanni Anselmo, and Piero Gilardi; and one in Rome, with Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis and Pino Pascali.[3] Celant went on to organize Arte Povera exhibitions at Galleria La Bertesca in Genoa (1967), Galleria De' Foscherari in Bologna (1968), and a three-day performance event called "Arte Povera & Azioni Povere at Amalfi" (1968).
In 1974, Celant edited and curated the
In 1988, Celant was appointed Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[4]
From 1993 on Celant served as Artistic Director of the
Celant curated exhibitions at other venues. In collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, he mounted the 2012 survey “Lucio Fontana: Ambienti Spaziali” at Gagosian Gallery, New York.[8]
In 2016 he was the Project Director of The Floating Piers, Christo and Jeanne-Claudes work at Lago d'Iseo.
Personal life
Celant was married to fellow curator Paris Murray. In 2006, the couple purchased a Milan paper factory building converted by the architect Pierluigi Cerri into a 10,000-square-foot house.[9]
Death
On 29 April 2020, Celant died in Milan from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. He was 79.[10]
References
- ^ "Santa Fe Art Institute". Archived from the original on 7 January 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2010. Santa Fe Art Institute Lectures 2005
- ^ See R. Barilli, Rodolfo Vitone. Trent'anni di ricerca e creatività, DeFerrari, Genoa, 1997 p. 47: "On his return from Paris, (R. Vitone) founded the contemporary culture magazine 'Marcatrè' entrusting Mr. Eugenio Battisti with the direction".
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- ^ Russell, John (1 December 1988). "Guggenheim Names Curator". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2020 – via NYTimes.com.
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- ^ Karen Wright (16 July 2012), 'The Small Utopia. Ars Multiplicata' at Fondazione Prada, Venice Archived 24 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine Wallpaper.
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- ^ Ronchi, Giulia (29 April 2020). "Il virus uccide Germano Celant. Uno dei più grandi critici d'arte al mondo". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
External links
- Germano Celant at IMDb