Zero To Infinity: Arte Povera

The Late Sixties saw the establishment of one of the most influential modern art movements, Arte Povera (literally 'impoverished art') in Italy. You've never heard of it? Well, I can't say I'm surprised, I hadn't heard of it either, until this exhibition at London's Tate Modern, collecting together works by all of the major artists involved in the art movement. It is fairly unsurprising that the movement was largely missed, at the time, the world's attention was largely focussed on the rise of the Beatles, and the art world was more interested in pop art, with Andy Warhol holding his first retrospective in 1965. Arte Povera, as ...