Level 4: Room 8
Tate Modern: Display
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Three works from the late 1960s and early 1970s show different ways in which artists associated with arte povera engaged with photography.
Arte povera is usually considered as a sculptural movement, with artists employing everyday industrial or natural materials rather than traditional fine art ones. But many of the artists associated with arte povera used photography to think about sculptural concerns. They posed questions about the relation of the body to the world around it: how bodies move through space, how bodies are subject to gravity, how the body touches its surroundings. Photography could be utilised as a means to document specific actions or processes. However, for the artists in this room, the camera’s ability to fix and preserve a fleeting moment in time also became an integral element of the artwork.
Arte povera is usually considered as a sculptural movement, with artists employing everyday industrial or natural materials rather than traditional fine art ones. But many of the artists associated with arte povera used photography to think about sculptural concerns. They posed questions about the relation of the body to the world around it: how bodies move through space, how bodies are subject to gravity, how the body touches its surroundings. Photography could be utilised as a means to document specific actions or processes. However, for the artists in this room, the camera’s ability to fix and preserve a fleeting moment in time also became an integral element of the artwork.
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