Giovanni Anselmo
b. 1934, Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Italy; d. 2023, Turin, Italy
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- Male
Piraeus, Greece, 1936 - 2017, Rome, Italy
Johannesburg, South Africa, 1955 -
National City, California, 1931 - 2020, Venice, California
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BiographySELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2001Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York1997"Giovanni Anselmo: Lungo il Sentiero Verso Oltremare," The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois1996Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, FranceMarian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York1995Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain1993Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland1989Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York1986Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York1985ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France1984Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York"Anselmo, Long, Kirkeby," Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy1980Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The NetherlandsForum Kunst, Rottweil, GermanyMusée de Grenoble, Grenoble, FranceVereinigung veer het Museum Van Hedendaagse-Kunst, Ghent, Belgium1979Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland1977Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany1975Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany1973Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, SwitzerlandSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2003-"Memoria Ribelle," Padiglione Latino Americano, Naples, Italy-"La Poetica dell'Arte Povera," Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany" A Sculpture Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York2001"Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1971," Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Minnesota; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.2001-0"Del futurisme al laser: l'aventura italiana de la materia," Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstforum in der GrundkreditBank, Berlin, Germany"Arte Povera in collezione Castello di Rivoli," Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy2000"Le Temps Vite," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain"La ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire," Villa Medici, Rome, Italy"Luci in galleria: da Warhol al 2000," Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy"Artistas franceses e italianos nas coleccións Fundación ARCO e CGAC," Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain2000-97"Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1967 bis heute," Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria; Konsthallen, Göteborg, Sweden; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany1999"Strengthening Wind from Changing Directions: International Avant-Garde since 1960 (The Paul Maenz Collection)," Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany"Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something blue," San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy1999-97"Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art," Palazzo Querini Dubois, Venice, Italy; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York1998"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York"Artecittà: 11 artisti per il Passante Ferroviario di Torino," Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy1st Kimpo International Sculpture Symposium, Leisure Sports Park Site of Kimpo, Kimpo, Korea"Amalfi '68- Napoli '98," Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, Italy"Le cercle, le ring," Maison Levanneur, Chatou, France1998-97"Arte italiana 1945-1998. Il visible e l'invisibile," Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan1997"Arte Italiana Ultimi Quaranti'Anni. Materiali Anomali," Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy"Città Natura," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy"Pittura Italiana da Collezioni Italiane," Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy"Livres d'artistes. L'invention d'un genre 1960-1980," Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France"The Berardo Collection," Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Sintra, Spain"Artmonie," Castel Ivano, Ivano Fraceno, Trento, Italy"Arte Povera e dintorni," Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno, Italy; Galleria Civica, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy1996-95"1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California1995Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bignan, France1994"Does the Work Take Place?," Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands1993"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York1991"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York"This Land...," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York"Un detail immense," Charleroi Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium"TOWARD A NEW MUSEUM," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California"Antinomia,"Facoltä di Architettura/Castello del Valentino, Turin, Italy"Histoires d'Oeil," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Espace Lyonnaise d'Art Contemporain, Embarcadére, Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France"Arte Povera 1971 und 20 Jahre danach," Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany1990"Von Der Natur in Den Kunst," Messeplast, Vienna, AustriaVenice Biennial, Venice, Italy"Affinitiés Sélectives I," Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium"Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Arte Povera, Land Art—Sammlung Marzona," Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany"Le Territoire de l'Art," Musée Russe, St. Petersburg, Russia"Aktuelle Kunst Europas," Sammlung Centre Pompidou, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany"Die Endlichkeit der Freiheit," Exhibition Project in East and West Berlin, Germany"Vom Verschwinden der Ferne: Telekomunikation und Kunst," Deutsches Postmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany"L'Arte Povera dans la Collections du MNAM," Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France"Temperamenti," Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland1989"Art Contemporain Lyon," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyons, France"Bilderstreit," Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany"Italian Art," National Gallery, London, England"Larry Bell, Giovanni Anselmo, Toni Grand," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyons, France"Verso l'Arte Povera, momenti e aspetti degli anni '60 in Italia," Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy"MaterialMente," Galleria Communale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy"Wittgenstein," Wiener Secession, Vereinigung bildender Künstler, Vienna, Austria"Einleuchten," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany"L'art Conceptuel: une perspective," ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France1988Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania1987"Century '87," Amsterdam, The Netherlands1986"A Drawing Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York1985"Del Arte Povera a 1985," Palacio de Velazquez, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain"The European Iceberg, Creativity in Germany and Italy Today," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario"Les Immateriaux," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France"The Knot: Arte Povera at P.S. 1," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York1984"Que restet'il," Over Studio, Turin, Italy"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York"Skulptures in 20. Jahrhundert," Merian-Park Brugligen, Basel, Switzerland"Histoires de Sculpture," Chateau des Ducs d'Epernon, Cadillac, FranceMarian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York"Deux regions en France: l'Art International d'aujourd'hui," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium"Coehenza in cohenza dall'arte povera al 1984," La Mole Antonelliana, Turin, Italy"Histoires de Sculpture," Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France"Ouverture," Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy1983"Presence Discrete," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France"Concetto-Imago," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany "Adamah," Espace Lyonnaise d'Art Contemporain-Centre D'echanges de Perrache, Lyons, France"Eine Kunstgeschichte in Turin, 1965-1983," Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, GermanyARS 1983, Helsinki, Finland1982"Arte povera, Antiform," CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FranceHalle 6, Hamburg, GermanyDocumenta 7, Kassel, Germany1981"Linee della ricerca artistica in Italia 1969-80," Pallazo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy"Identité Italienne," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, ParisWest/Kunst, Cologne, Germany1980Venice Biennial, Venice, ItalyLibreria OOLP, Turin, Italy1979"Artistes Italiens," Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, St-Etienne, France"Words," Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy"Photographie als Kunst, Kunst als Photograpie," Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria"Le Stanze," Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy1979-77"Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cinncinati, Ohio19786 Biennalle Internazionale della Grafica d'Arte, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, ItalyVenice Biennial, Venice, Italy"Focus 78," Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, France1977"Brunelleschi e noi," Chiostro di Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy"Trigon 77," Kunstlerhaus Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria"Arte in Italia '60-'70," Museo d'Art Moderno, Turin, Italy"10 Jahre Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst," Kunsthalle, Bremerhaven, Germany"Arte Povera," Galleria Il Tritone, Biella, ItalyGalleria Sperone, Rome, Italy1976Sydney Biennial, Sydney, AustraliaProspect 76, Düsseldorf, Germany"A.A.B.," Brescia, Italy1975Kunst Markt, Cologne, GermanyModern Art Agency, Naples, Italy1974"Projekt 74," Cologne, Germany"Italiensiche Kunst der letzen 20 Jahre," Art 5 '74, Basel, SwitzerlandGalleria Studio G7, Bologna, Italy"Idea and Image in Recent Art," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois1973"An Exhibition of New Italian Art," The Art Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland"Contemporanea," Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy10 Quadriennale, Rome, Italy"Acht Italianens/Huit Italiens," Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Galerie MTL, Brussels, Belgium1972Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia"Con il Conforto del Razionale," 23e Mostra d'Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice, Italy"420 West Broadway," Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, ItalyDocumenta 5, Kassel, Germany1971"Arte Povera," Kunstverein, Munich, GermanyModern Art Agency, Naples, Italy19703e Biennale della Giovane Pittura, Bologna, Italy"Processi di Pensioero Visualizzati," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland"Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art," Museo d'Art Moderno, Turin, Italy3e Salon International de Galeries-Pilotes, Museo Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland"Vitalita del Negativo nell'Arte Italiana," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy1969"Op Losse Schroeven," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands"When Attitude Becomes Form," Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Museusm Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany"Verborgene Strukturen," Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany"Plane and Porjekte als Kunst," Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland1968"Arte Povera," Centro Arte Viva, Trieste, ItalyPremio Masaccio, S. Giovanni Valdarno, ItalyProspect 68, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, GermanyRA 3, Amalfi, Italy1967"Arte povera," Universita de Genova, Genoa, ItalyCOMMISSIONS/PUBLIC PROJECTS1999"A Homage to Granite—The Island of Sculptures," Pontevedra, Spain©Marian Goodman Gallery