Browsing Category: arte povera

  • Pino Pascali, Farm Tools (1968)

    Leading agriculturalists, politicians and intellectuals got together this March to explore how Roman farming techniques can help us protect the environment in 2011. The setting was Italy’s leading school of agriculture in Florence and the occasion was to mark 50 years of a journal of farming history, namely Rivista di storia dell’ agricoltura. This publication …

    March 29, 2011

  • Pino Pascali, Vedova Blu (1968)

    There is nothing like an early death to fuse an artist’s biography and work in the minds of his audience. Here is Pino Pascali, beside one of his best known works, inseparable. Common sense tells us that a motorcycle crash should not affect the worth of the Italian sculptor’s art. Yet it does, and this …

    March 25, 2011