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Giovanni Anselmo

Giovanni Anselmo (1934 - 2023) was active/lived in Italy.  Giovanni Anselmo is known for Found object sculpture, 'Arte Povera'.

Giovanni Anselmo (b. 1934, Borgofranco d'Ivrea), divides his time between Turin and the volcanic island of Stromboli.  It was while walking on Mount Stromboli at dawn in 1965 that he was suddenly struck by the realization that he was merely a tiny detail in the vast continuum of universal energy.

This epiphany was to inspire his many works investigating the finite and the infinite, the microcosm and the macrocosm, and the elemental laws and forces of nature - gravity, tension, magnetism and energy. A wide range of organic and inorganic materials including vegetables, water, electricity, granite, iron and plastic are brought together in combinations that strikingly demonstrate these forces.

In Torsion, 1968, for example, a leather loop set in a concrete block is tightly twisted and fixed in place with a wooden bar.  This work literally traps energy. Similarly, in Untitled, 1967, a large sheet of Perspex is held taut in a curved shape by an iron fastening.   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2567 characters.]  Artist bio

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