The exhibition “Arte Povera” at the Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection traces the birth in Italy and the development and legacy of this group across the globe. The curator, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, has assembled more than 250 works for the museum by the thirteen protagonists of Arte Povera—Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, and Gilberto Zorio – as well as new commissions given to the artists of this historic group and to international artists of the following generations whose work resonates strongly with thethought and practice of Arte Povera.
The curation has been entrusted to Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an inter- nationally recognised specialist in this Italian group. It draws from the Pinault Collection’s major holdings of Arte Povera, which have been placed in resonance with works from the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin, the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT in Turin, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein—Vaduz, the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM) in Turin, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Tate in London. The curator has initiated an innovative dialogue with old and new works, thereby situating Arte Povera within a larger temporal landscape.