Gilberto Zorio was born in Andorno Micca, Biella in 1944. He lives and works in Turin. He is a leading figure of the “Arte Povera” movement that formed in the mid-sixties in Italy. From 1967 to the present, besides exhibitions in private galleries, Gilberto Zorio’s works have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions in public museums and galleries such as the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne (‘76), the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (‘79), the Pinacoteca di Ravenna (’82), the Venice Biennale (‘78, ‘80, ‘86, ‘95, ‘97), the Kunstverein in Stutgart (‘85), the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (‘86), the Tel Aviv Museum and the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (‘87), the Philadelphia Tyler School of Art (‘88), the Museu Serralves in Porto (‘90), lVAM in Valencia (‘91), the Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Pecci in Prato, Documenta in Kassel and the Musèe d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain in Nice (‘92), the Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea in Trento ('96), the Dia Center for the Arts in New York (2001), Le Creux de l'Enfer Centre d'Art Contemporain in Thiers and the Institut Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt (2005), the Milton Keynes Gallery in Milton Keynes (2008), MAMbo in Bologna (2009), CGAC in Santiago de Compostela (2010), MACRO in Rome (2010), and Castello di Rivoli-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin (2017).
Thursday, January 16th at 6:00 PM, at the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri in Bologna, the exhibition “TORRI : TERRA” by Grazia Toderi and Gilberto Zorio, curated by Cristina Francucci, will be inaugurated. The exhibition will be open to the public from January 17th to February 5th, from Thursday to
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.
From Oct. 31 to Dec. 9, 2023, the Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg will host the double exhibition project entitled Arte Povera and South African Art: In Conversation, sponsored by the Consulate General of Italy, curated by Ilaria Bernardi. The exhibition aims to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the 1967
GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Turin continues exploring its own heritage by dedicating a chapter to Italian sculpture between 1940 and 1980 with an exhibition that presents 50 works made by 40 artistsactive during that time: forty years of monumental change and major stylistic milestones, in
Marina Abramović, Vanessa Beecroft, Paolo Icaro, Alfredo Jaar, William Kentridge, Joseph Kosuth, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Luca Monterastelli, Ugo Mulas, Thomas Ruff, Wael Shawky, Haim Steinbach, Ettore Spalletti, Gian Maria Tosatti, Tobias Zielony, Gilberto Zorio
