Paperback, full colour, 142 pages, W215 x H269mm
In March 2005, Giovanni Anselmo exhibited at Ikon and Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany. This publication is the product of these exhibitions and explores the breadth of the Italian artist’s influential Arte Povera works from the mid-1960s up until the site-specific sculptural installations produced for the 2005 show.
In examining Anselmo’s wider practice, this publication touches on the artist’s interpretation and redefinition of the material and thematic parameters of traditional sculpture. From the outset of his career – launched in 1967 – Anselmo has determinedly produced work that breaks down such constraints, aiming to engage with energy that, as he has phrased it, ‘exists beneath the most varied of appearances and situations.’
This catalogue includes numerous new black and white and colour images, and two essays by Anne Rorimer and Tiziana Caianiello. The publication also includes a full list of works and biography.