From October 9, 2024, Pinault Collection presents a major exhibition dedicated to Arte Povera at the Bourse de Commerce. Between heritage and influence, the exhibition features over 250 historical and contemporary works from this major Italian artistic movement of the 1960s.
The exhibition sheds light on both the Italian birth and the international influence of this movement, through the works of the thirteen main protagonists of Arte Povera: Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zorio. In the unique architecture of the Bourse de Commerce, transformed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the exhibition is envisaged as a landscape to be explored, becoming the terrain where the infinite poetics of Arte Povera take root.
Conceived by curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an internationally-renowned specialist in this artistic movement, the Arte Povera exhibition brings together some fifty historic and emblematic works from the Pinault Collection, in correspondence with those from other prestigious public and private collections.