Giovanni Anselmo (1934)

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  Giovanni Anselmo (b. 1934)

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  Giovanni Anselmo (b. 1934)

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  Giovanni Anselmo (b. 1934)

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  Giovanni Anselmo , Un Giro Più del Ferro iron, engraving and transparent varnish

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Giovanni Anselmo Biography

(b Borgofranco d’Ivrea, Piedmont, 5 Aug 1934). Italian sculptor. After working as a painter from 1959 to 1964, he turned to conceptual art in 1965 and by 1968 was associated with the emergence of ARTE POVERA, of which he became one of the strictest and most coherent exponents. His limited output consisted largely of the staging of major physical processes whose long-term effects the audience was invited to imagine, in such a way that the non-material dimension of thought was brought to bear on bulky and spectacular physical phenomena. In Direction (150*500*800 mm, 1967–9; Paris, Pompidou), for instance, a magnetic compass is set within a circular recess of a slab of granite shaped like an arrowhead and displayed pointing north, thus proposing two different ways of expressing the concept alluded to by the title.

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