On the occasion of the exhibition Imagine. New Imagery in Italian Art
1960-1969, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, at the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection, Venice, from
April 23 to September 19 2016, a cycle of films called If Arte Povera was Pop will be screened May 11 and May 12. Presented for the first time in a more extended version at Tate Modern in October 2015, If Arte Povera was Pop is a provocation. Arte Povera was everything but Pop. However, the anthology has the objective to investigate the origins and the transmission of what was unquestionably an interdisciplinary movement. Alongside rare artists’ films, documentation of seminal exhibitions, and audacious avant-garde films, If Arte Povera was Pop explores both the heterodox environment of Arte Povera in Turin and the cosmopolitanism and eccentricity of the Roman scene. Detailed programme
to be announced soon.