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| Jannis Kounellis, Senza titolo, 1967 |
Germano Celant died on 29 April 2020.
Celant had a long and distinguished career as a critic and a curator, notably at the Guggenheim in New York and the Fondazione Prada in Milan. But he is probably best remembered for coining the term
Arte Povera ('Poor Art'). In 1967 he wrote a manifesto,
Arte Povera: Notes on a Guerrilla War (
Appunti per una Guerriglia), and subsequently organised, between 1967 and the early 1970s, exhibitions of work by the Italian artists he recognised as sharing an Arte Povera sensibility. These artists included: Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulo Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Gilberto Zorio.
He is memorialised here by a selection of works by the artists associated with Arte Povera.
Read obituaries here:
Franco Fanelli,
The Art Newspaper
Jason Farago,
The New York Times
Naomi Rea,
Artnetnews
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| Giovanni Anselmo, Verso l'infinito, 1969 |
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| Alighiero Boetti, Mappa, 1979 |
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| Luciano Fabro, Italia d'oro, 1971 |
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| Jannis Kounellis, Cavalli, 1969 |
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| Mario Merz, Lingotto, 1968 |
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| Marisa Merz, Untitled (Living Sculpture), 1966 |
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| Giulio Paolini, Necessaire, 1968 |
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| Giuseppe Penone, Five Metre Tree, 1969-70 |
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| Michelangelo Pistoletto, Metamorfosi, 1976–2013 |
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| Gilberto Zorio, Stella di bronzo con acidi e pergemena, 1978 |
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| Germano Celant, Arte Povera: Appunti per una Guerriglia, Flash Art, No.5, 1967 |
