First Germano Celant Research Center opens at Magazzino Italian Art with a focus on Arte Povera

Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring will open the Germano Celant Research Center within the museum. The opening will take place on April 29, marking the third anniversary of Celant’s death in 2020. The Germano Celant Research Center, the first in the world, aims to honor the life and memory of the art historian, critic and curator, among the most influential figures of the post-World War II period in Italy and beyond.

As an institution dedicated to the study of Italian art from the 1950s to the contemporary, Celant’s contributions to the founding of Magazzino Italian Art have been immeasurable. The Germano Celant Research Center will be a resource available to scholars and students. The Research Center has an extensive library and archive of publications primarily devoted toItalian art, particularly postwar to contemporary, design, architecture, ceramics, contemporary artist jewelry and Murano glass.

With a focus on theArte Povera movement, which includes nearly a thousand volumes, the Germano Celant Research Center will offer the opportunity to consult the most important publications on this subject and to see the works on display in the museum. The Center currently has more than 5 thousand publications, including 330 rare books, archival materials, photographs, invitations and posters.

In 1967, at the age of 27, Germano Celant curated a group exhibition of five young Italian artists at La Bertesca Gallery in Genoa, entitled “Arte Povera - IM Spazio.” Michelagelo Pistoletto, Gulio Paolini, Giovanni Anselmo, Luciano Fabro, Giuseppe Penone, Jannis Kounellis, Alighiero Boetti, Pino Pascali, Mario and Marisa Merz, Gilberto Zorio, and Emilio Prini, who were developing a new language using unconventional and everyday materials. By defining their practices as Arte Povera, Celant represented a fundamental reference for the direction of 20th century Italian art, coining not only a term, but a unique creative movement and methodology of artistic thought and creation.

For info: https://www.magazzino.art/

Image: Germano Celant Research Center, Magazzino Italian Art. Photo by Marco Anelli and Tommaso Sacconi. Courtesy of Magazzino Italian Art.

First Germano Celant Research Center opens at Magazzino Italian Art with a focus on Arte Povera

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