{"title":"Arte Povera","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition ephemera, printed matter, and documents associated with Arte Povera — the Italian movement active from the late 1960s onward, centred on artists including Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Giuseppe Penone. Invitations, announcements, and related printed material issued at the moment of exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"giovanni-anselmo-musee-dart-contemporain-lyon-1989","title":"Giovanni Anselmo — Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, 1989","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition announcement for Giovanni Anselmo at the Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, 12 October – 19 November 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30 × 21.2 cm. Satin cardstock. Single sheet, printed recto and verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recto carries a colour installation view — two works in a white-walled space: a leaning triangular stone form and a granite block with a small bunch of leaves tucked into its surface, both cast in strong diagonal light. The verso holds the full institutional apparatus: exhibition details, an extended interview with the artist conducted by Walter Guadagnini, reference images, and a footnote on Joseph Kosuth. Produced at the scale of a small poster rather than a standard invitation card.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA printed exhibition record in which image, curatorial framing, and institutional information are carried on the same support. Less a card than a flat document of display and interpretation, issued at the moment of the exhibition. Anselmo’s position within Arte Povera gives the sheet added historical density without requiring it to exceed its administrative function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: light general handling wear, soft surface marks, and minor edge wear consistent with age and material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e£45 — price includes shipping and handling. Flat-packed dispatch. 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Bilingual Italian and German text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue documents 200 collages made under the title \u003cem\u003eAcquabiografia\u003c\/em\u003e, in which Plessi treats water not as a natural element but as an unstable system of images, tools, absurd functions, and poetic substitutions. Works from 1972–74 are reproduced throughout, including \u003cem\u003eAnalogie Sostitutive\u003c\/em\u003e (1973), \u003cem\u003eMaschera antiacqua\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003eA bordo della Carnegie\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003eCanotto da deserto\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003eStiraonde dall'acquabiografico\u003c\/em\u003e (1973), and \u003cem\u003eMare classico\u003c\/em\u003e (1974) — all acrylic on emulsioned canvas, format 125 × 81 cm. Each work is reproduced as a full spread, with title, date, and medium listed on the facing page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVenice is central to the project: flooding, cleaning, drains, sponges, soap, aquariums, and machines become imaginary solutions to a real civic and environmental condition. The text places Plessi in dialogue with — and against — Klaus Rinke, whose use of elemental materials is cited as a counterpoint. References to Giorgione, Leonardo, Géricault, and Duchamp are also present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue essay positions \u003cem\u003eAcquabiografia\u003c\/em\u003e as a precise emancipation from the rationalization of nature: water is paradoxically removed from its usual state as object, transformed through equipment into useless material, and made available as metaphor. Plessi's humour — grotesque, absurdist, and civic — runs throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcrylic on emulsioned canvas works reproduced throughout. 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