Paolo Icaro (Turin 1936, lives and works in Tavullia, in the Province of Pesaro) is one of the protagonists of 1970s artistic research, the Arte Povera movement, and has always experimented with the action of sculpting in relation to form and space. “Space in sculpture,” he states, “is the same space in which my body is, and I’m also in the same space as the sculpture. Sculpture is therefore body, the body of the idea which creates vulnerable gravity, just like any other body in the universe.”
Contemporary artists reread the work of Rocco Scotellaro Edited by Giuseppe Appella
“Anacronismo” (Anachronism) consists of sheets of mirrored glass placed on top of small piles of sand, which capture and reflect the frescoes on the walls around them; thus, an unprecedented interaction between the observer’s position in the space and the visual stimuli that surround him or her is born. The
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
“TERRITORI DELLA PERFORMANCE: percorsi e pratiche in Italia (1967-1982)” set up at the Archive Wall at MAXXI in Rome and accessible free of charge. It is a collection of more than 100 contributions, including photographs, drawings, sketches, period magazines and publications, videos, and oral testimonies, to recount 15 years of
