From October 9, 2024 to January 20, 2025, the Pinault Collection presents at the Bourse de Commerce a major exhibition dedicated to Arte Povera. Between legacy and influence, the exhibition spans more than 250 works—historical, contemporary, and belonging to this important Italian artistic movement of the 1960s.
The exhibition aims to highlight both the Italian birth and the international diffusion of this movement, through the works of the thirteen main protagonists of Arte Povera: Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, and Gilberto Zorio. Within the singular architecture of the Bourse de Commerce, transformed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the exhibition is conceived as a landscape to be traversed and becomes the ground in which the infinite poetics of Arte Povera takes root.
Conceived by curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an internationally recognized specialist of this artistic movement, the Arte Povera exhibition brings together around fifty historical and emblematic works from the Pinault Collection, placed in relation with those from other prestigious public and private collections.