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june 12, 2023 - Triennale

Reversing the Eye Photography, Film and Video in the Years of Arte Povera


Triennale Milano – in collaboration with Jeu de Paume and LE BAL, two of the world’s leading visual arts institutions – presents the exhibition Reversing the Eye: Photography, Film and Video in the Years of #arte Povera, curated by Quentin Bajac, Director of Jeu de Paume, Diane Dufour, Director of LE BAL, Giuliano Sergio, independent curator, and Lorenza Bravetta, Curator for Photography, Cinema and New Media at #triennalemilano. Presented in the two Parisian venues between October 2022 and January 2023, the exhibition features over 250 works by 49 artists exploring the relationship between #arte povera and certain avant-garde movements, present in Italy in the
late 1960s and early 1970s, with the languages of photography, cinema and video.

Stefano Boeri, President of #triennalemilano, says: “Between the 1960s and 1970s the Italian art scene was characterized by exceptional vitality. Underlining the importance of this remarkable period, the exhibition focuses on the relationship between the avant-garde of those years and the spread of new media. We are very happy to present – together with two important international
institutions such as Jeu de Paume and LE BAL – an exhibition that is also designed to explore the potential of the media of that period, which brought about a momentous change in the way of making art.”

Lorenza Bravetta, Curator for Photography, Cinema and New Media at #triennalemilano, says: “By taking this new course, the Triennale has undertaken a research project to investigate the evolution of media and their possible interplay with new technologies, other disciplines and forms of artistic expression. With Reversing the Eye: Photography, Film and Video in the Years of #arte Povera we
are adding a fundamental piece to our narrative, bearing witness to the dialogue between art and photography that in those years definitively freed the media from the function of mere documentation, anticipating the iconosphere in which we find ourselves today.”

The aim of the exhibition is not to give an account of all the avant-garde movements present in Italy at the time, but to focus on the #arte povera scene, as critic Germano Celant defined it in 1967. In response to American Pop Art and in conjunction with the activities of international conceptual artists, #arte povera sought to bring art and life together. Although rarely associated with this trend,
photography, film and video were widely used by its exponents and can therefore be counted among the #arte povera media.

In addition to the protagonists of the movement, the exhibition gives space to the work of other artists – particularly photographers such as Elisabetta Catalano, Mario Cresci, Luigi Ghirri, Mimmo Jodice and Ugo Mulas – who shared exhibit venues with #arte povera artists or crucially influenced their work.
The exhibition, whose title echoes that of Giuseppe Penone’s 1970 work, unfolds through a chronological itinerary based on four thematic strands: Body, Experience, Image and Theatre. Each of these terms encapsulates a specific question regarding the relationship with time and space (Experience), the deconstruction of reality and its representations through images (Image), the
dimension of theatricality inherent in these media (Theatre) and the very concept of identity and the role of the author (Body). 

The exhibition brings together the works of 49 artists: Claudio Abate, Carlo Alfano, Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Elisabetta Catalano, Mario Cresci, Gino De Dominicis, Plinio De Martiis, Luciano Fabro, Giosetta Fioroni, Luigi Ghirri, Luciano Giaccari, Paolo Gioli, Laura Grisi, Marcello Grottesi, Franco Guerzoni, Paolo Icaro, Mimmo Jodice, Jannis Kounellis, Ketty La Rocca, Piero Manzoni, Plinio Martelli, Paolo Matteucci, Eliseo Mattiacci, Fabio Mauri, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Ugo Mulas, Paolo Mussat Sartor, Ugo Nespolo, Luigi Ontani, Giulio Paolini, Claudio Parmiggiani, Pino Pascali, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luca Maria Patella, Giuseppe Penone, Gianni Pettena, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Salvo (Salvatore Mangione), Gerry Schum, Cesare Tacchi, Andrea Taverna, Franco Vaccari, Michele Zaza and Gilberto Zorio.
The exhibition Reversing the Eye has been made possible by the support of the Institutional Partners Lavazza Group and Salone del Mobile.Milano.

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