Giovanni Anselmo was one of the pioneers of Arte Povera. This Italian art movement of the late 1960s reacted to the use of precious materials in art by creating installations and sculptures using simple materials. Anselmo’s artistic quest focuses primarily on the question of how art can enable us to experience such immaterial phenomena as energy and gravity. The artist sees himself as an intermediary: he provides the optimal conditions in which an artwork can lead a life of its own while exposed to external forces and subject to the properties of the material it is made of.
