Considering the paradoxes and contradictions that distinguish the history of humanity, it is not so strange that even Arte Povera has now come to be - from a movement of rebellion against the consumerist system where "mass production forces the production of a single object that satisfies, to the point of habituation, the market (and where) the artist replaces the assembly line" - a widely collected artistic movement which has now reached its museum consecration. So it is not surprising that today the most important and wealthy art collector in the world François-Henri Pinault with the foundation of the same name is bringing a large collection of important works by thirteen main protagonists of Arte Povera to a major exhibition in Paris. By radically transforming the language of contemporary art, Arte Povera changed the history of Western art, inventing an expanded definition of artistic creation that dialogues well - at least from an aesthetic point of view - with the most global artistic expressions of today. In the exhibition, the works of some of the most important interpreters of this artistic movement will be presented to the public, including Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone and Michelangelo Pistoletto.
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