"In 1967,[he] wrote a lasting page in art history when, as a 27-year-old curator in Genoa, he mounted an exhibition of five young Italian artists making provisional assemblages of humble materials, which he grouped under the term Arte Povera ('poor art'). These artists, including Alghiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis and Luciano Fabro, bridled against the conventions […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM on May 1, 2020