Stefano Arienti (born 1961) is an Italian artist whose art is inspired by the
Arte Povera and
Conceptual
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movements. He lives and works in Milan, Italy. He was born in
Asola, Lombardy
Asola ( Upper Mantovano: ) is a comune in the province of Mantua, Lombardy (northern Italy). It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree of October 23, 1951.
In 1516, when it was part of the Republic of Venice, it was unsucc ...
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His work is made of found materials such as magazines, postcards, newspapers and books. Source materials are transformed through minimal actions such as folding or puncturing done repeatedly and systematically. He has exhibited extensively and in 2005, th
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arteheld a retrospective of his work. In 2008,
Francesco Bonami
Francesco Bonami (b. Florence, 1955) is an Italian art curator and writer who is currently Honorary Director of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. He lives in Milan and Manhattan, New York.Rachel Wolff (February 14, 2010)112 Minutes With ...
curated the monumental exhibition "Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008" at th
Palazzo Grassithat included Arienti's ''Cassetto con strisce'', 1987-1989. In 2009, the exhibition travelled t
MCA Chicago
In 2007, Arienti was commissioned b
Art Pacefor their International Artist-In-Residence program. There he exhibited ''Library'', a landscape of 400 bushels of wheat and 99 books that were buried within. In the Fall of 2010, Arienti showed his third solo exhibition, ''natura, natura, natura'' at greengrassi in London, UK.
greengrassi
Stefano Arienti - natura, natura, natura, 2010.
References
External links
Isabella Stuart Gardener Museum
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte
MCA Chicago
Art Pace
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
greengrassi
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Italian contemporary artists
Living people
1961 births
Artists from Milan