Arte Povera Comes to the US: Germano Celant in conversation with Christian Rattemeyer
October 21, 2016
On the occasion of the launch of the Center for Italian Modern Art’s new season, dedicated to the artists Giorgio de Chirico and Giulio Paolini, CIMA welcomes the renowned art historian and curator Germano Celant in conversation with MoMA curator Christian Rattemeyer.
The discussion focuses on the landmark year of 1972, a crucial moment for the careers of both Germano Celant and leading conceptual artist Giulio Paolini. In November 1972, Celant curated the first exhibition of works by Giulio Paolini in the United States, held at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, and authored the first Arte Povera monograph to be published in English (Giulio Paolini, Sonnabend Press/Tipostampa, New York/Turin, 1972). The 1972 show at Sonnabend Gallery bears witness to Celant’s seminal and long-term impulse to internationalize Italian art.
Moderated by CIMA 2016-17 Fellow Maria Bremer, CIMA’s program draws together Celant’s singular firsthand account with Rattemeyer’s perspective on the exhibition’s influence on a later generation of curators. Casting light on the respective 1970s art scenes in Italy and the US and their interconnectivity, the conversation will reveal new insights and raise new questions. Celant coined the term “Arte Povera” in 1967, and his inclusion of Paolini in a series of exhibitions during these year, inextricably associated Paolini with this movement.
Presented with the support of Antonio Homem and the Sonnabend Collection Foundation.
$15; free for CIMA members and students with valid ID. Reservations required.
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
6pm – arrival and registration; viewing of the de Chirico / Paolini exhibition
6.25pm – conversation program begins, followed by Q&A
7.30pm – program concludes; viewing of the de Chirico / Paolini exhibition
8pm – close
Germano Celant has been Artistic Director of the Prada Foundation in Milan since 1993. Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1940, he became nationally and internationally renowned as a critic and curator after coining the term ‘Arte Povera’ in 1967. Author of numerous books, he has collaborated with the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he worked as Senior Curator.
Christian Rattemeyer is the Harvey S. Shipley Miller associate curator at the Department of Drawings at MoMA. Born in 1971, he has worked extensively as a curator, freelance writer, and critic in Germany and the US, with a special interest in the history of exhibitions.
