Borgofranco d’Ivrea, 1934 – Torino, 2023
Giovanni Anselmo is one of the founders of the Arte Povera movement. His research is based on the creation of a dialogue or a contrast that arises from the use of materials of different nature, investigating the balance relationships between opposing energies. His works often play on the juxtaposition of organic and inorganic materials, light and heavy, natural and artificial, up to reason on the relationship between visible and invisible, between finite and infinite and between man and nature. Anselmo made his debut in 1967 in a group exhibition at the Sperone gallery in Turin, which next year will also host his first solo exhibition. Since the late 1960s he has exhibited in galleries and museums around the world: Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York (1968), Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris (1969), Kunsthalle, Cologne (1974), Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1980), XII Bienal Internacional, Sao Paulo (1994)MAXXI, Rome (2010). He took part in the Venice Biennale in 1978, 1980, 1990 and 2007, and in Documenta in 1972 and 1982. In 1990 he received the Golden Lion for painting at the LXIV Venice Biennale, and in 2016 he received the “President of the Republic” Award of the National Academy of San Luca.
Selected solo exhibitions since 2000
2024
Giovanni Anselmo – Mas alla del horizonte, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
2022
momenti, momenti…, Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Grigi che si alleggeriscono mentre la terra si orienta, Kordad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan
2019
Entrare nell’opera, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome
2018
Mentre i disegni misurano, la luce focalizza, i colori e le pietre sono peso vivo, Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice, Turin
Giovanni Anselmo – Colori su tele verso l’altrove…, Bernier Eliades Gallery, Athens
2017
Senza titolo, invisibile, dove le stelle si avvicinano di una spanna in più, mentre oltremare appare verso Sud-Est, e la luce focalizza…, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Giovanni Anselmo, Marian Goodman Gallery, London
2016
Mentre la mano indica, la luce focalizza, nella gravitazione universale di interferisce, la terra si orienta, le stelle si avvicinano di una spanna in più… Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Archivi 1 – Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
2015
Giovanni Anselmo, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne
2014
Mentre la terra si orienta e la luce focalizza…, Palazzo Riso, Palermo
Giovanni Anselmo, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
2013
Giovanni Anselmo, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Giovanni Anselmo – Memoriale dal Convento, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Il Conventino, Monteciccardo (PU)
2012
Mentre l’ago magnetico si orienta e oltremare verso mezzanotte e mezzogiorno appare, Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice, Turin
Soltanto un quadro al massimo: Anselmo – Baumgarten, Accademia Tedesca a Roma, Villa Massimo, Rome
2010
Giovanni Anselmo, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
2006
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bologna
2005
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Giovanni Anselmo – collectie uitdieping II, S.M.A.K., Gent
Giovanni Anselmo, Artissima 2005, Turin
2004
Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Kleve
2003
Musée de la Corse, Corte
2002
Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice, Turin
2001
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Atelier del Bosco, Villa Medici, Academie de France à Rome, Rome
Centre Saint-Charles Université Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris