Why Is the Art Market Suddenly Going Crazy for Arte Povera—50 Years Later?

Nov 24, 2017 836

BY: Margaret Carrigan

The market for Postwar Italian art has been rapidly growing over the last decade—you can’t swing a Balenciaga bag around a modern art fair lately without knocking over at least three of Lucio Fontana’s slashed canvases.

But it’s Arte Povera, however, that has made its way to the forefront of the market’s collective consciousness just within the past couple of years. And this year—exactly 50 years since its birth—it seems as if recognition of the midcentury movement has hit its peak, both in its hometown of Turin and abroad.

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SOURCE: http://observer.com

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