Alighiero Boetti (EMBROIDERY!)
The key art exhibition which took place between 1960-1969 was called "Arte Povera e IM Spazio". It took place in Genoa, Italy, in September 1967, when I was three, almost four years old. Arte Povera was less about a style than a process of ongoing and open-ended research that challenged the settled order within art after minimalism, and which valued process over production. The work of this phase shared a concentration on commonly available materials such as newspaper, wood, stone, sand, and a reaction to technology and the distortion the artists perceived in postwar consumerism. Charactirized by an attempt at reconnecting with naturalness, they combined a material's metaphorical potential in the way of making art. I relate very much to these ideas in the way I create my collages...! It all alludes to contemporary chaos.
