EXHIBITION

Arte Povera

Musée Carré d'Art, Languedoc-Roussillon, Nîmes, 11/04/2011 - 01/15/2012

Place de la Maison Carrée

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The exhibition will bring together the positions of eight international artists focused particular attention to the material in an open work that binds strongly to both the physical involvement of the artist who hosts instead. The work is often thought of as a non-sustainable. Rather than an object, it appears as a process. Most materials used are ordinary use as well as their artistic material tends to alienate them from their social recognition feature. Often emphasizing improvisation, performers tend to open the border between the finished material and linking work and exposure procedures workshop.

Like their predecessors of the Arte Povera, these artists choose materials at hand and feel that their mission is to draw attention to the artistic value of the real world. However, now is a different state of society is questioned. The materials may be polystyrene, plaster, cosmetics, cash register receipts, the polyane, falls plywood or medium, often packaging materials or supplies found in the workshop. Unlike their predecessors of the sixties, these works will announce to support a new state of society and work in the interstices of a resolutely contemporary society, rather than exploiting programmatic opposition between nature and culture. 

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