Giovanni Anselmo

Among the first artists to show work at the Castello di Rivoli when it opened in 1984, Giovanni Anselmo (Borgofranco d’Ivrea, Turin, 1934) presents a new exhibition at the Museum. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition takes place on the third floor of the Manica Lunga. Today one of Italy’s most internationally acclaimed artists, Anselmo first emerged as part of the Arte Povera group during the second half of the 1960s while engaged in research aimed at highlighting the constant dialogue between the visible and the invisible. His visible materials are natural elements and industrial products, often seemingly modes – light projectors, magnetic needles, granite stone, photographs, dirt, and blocks of ultramarine blue – while his invisible materials include magnetic fields, gravitational force, and the surrounding space in which we happen to be. This makes Anselmo’s work as pertinent today as ever and of increasing interest to younger generations who have grown up in the age of immaterial virtuality.

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