The Accademia di San Luca traces fifty years of Giovanni Anselmo's career in a retrospective exhibition

The artist Giovanni Anselmo (Borgofranco d’Ivrea, 1934) was awarded the 2016 President of the Republic Prize for Sculpture, and theAccademia Nazionale di San Luca is dedicating to him, from November 13, 2019 to January 31, 2020, a retrospective exhibition entitled Giovanni Anselmo. Entering the Work.

Visitors will be able to retrace the more than 50 years of Anselmo’s artistic production; the exhibition itinerary has been specially designed for the spaces of Palazzo Carpegna, home of the Accademia di San Luca.

Twenty-seven works selected by the artist, among the most significant of his career, will be on display: mostly of large dimensions, they range from the late 1960s to the present and come from his personal collection, important museums, galleries, and private Italian collections, including the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, the GAM in Turin, and the Mart in Rovereto.

The artist uses various materials for his works: from the iron and fabric of Torsione (1968), to the sea sponge and iron of Respiro (1969), from the photograph printed on canvas of Entrare nell’opera (1971), to the stone, steel cable and pigment of Verso Oltremare (1984), to the earth and magnetic needle of Mentre la terra si orienta (1967/2019).

Giovanni Anselmo was a major protagonist ofArte Povera. In the mid-1960s he abandoned pictorial experimentation to focus on early works made with iron rods in close relation to gravity and balance. Constant in his art is in fact thefocus on energy, gravitas, spatial position, part for all and expression through tensions of opposing thrusts.

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Ph.Credit Andrea Veneri

The Accademia di San Luca traces fifty years of Giovanni Anselmo's career in a retrospective exhibition

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