arte povera moss

www.ishotkatemoss.com was recently referred to by the incoming President of the American Academy in Rome as "arte povera moss". To help explain the reference, with some assistance from our good friends at wikipedia:

Arte Povera (literally poor art) is a modern art movement. The Arte Povera movement was during 1967-1972 and took place in cities throughout Italy.

The term was coined by Italian art critic German Celant and introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance. Artists began attacking the values of established institutions of government, industry, and culture.

The exhibition Im Spazio (The Space of Thoughts), curated by Celant and held at the Galleria La Bertesca in Genoa, Italy, from Sep. through Oct. 1967, is often considered to be the official start of Arte Povera. Celant, who became one of Arte Povera's major proponents, organized two exhibitions in 1967 and 1968, followed by an influential book published by Electa in 1985 called Arte Povera Storie e protagonisti/Arte Povera. Histories and Protagonists, promoting the notion of a revolutionary art, free of convention, the power of structure, and the market place.

Although Celant attempted to encompass radical elements of the entire international scene, the term properly centered on a group of Italian artists who attacked the corporate mentality with an art of unconventional materials and style.

The most wide-ranging public collection of works from the Arte Povera movement is at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.

Our goal here at ishotkatemoss is for it to be the new hub of the most "wide-ranging public collection of works from the new 'arte povera moss' movement"!

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