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DIRECTION. INVISIBLE. DETAIL. Each of these words is the complete title of one of Giovanni Anselmo’s signature artworks, and each is testament to the radical aims of his meticulous practice. Anselmo was an integral figure of Arte Povera, a curatorial concept of the late 1960s that described a dozen or so Italian artists who largely eschewed representation in order to create situations of perceptual experience. Anselmo’s work bridged sculpture and conceptualism with razor-sharp precision and ...

Italian artist whose idiosyncratic sculptures and installations were part of the ‘arte povera’ movement of the late 1960s and 70s

An artist of many mediums, he used a vast array of materials, including stone, paint, piles of earth and even lettuce, to provoke thought and wonder.