Giovanni Anselmo’s works are predicated on action. As a result, they always seem to exist in the present moment—dynamic presentations of materials that resist aesthetic resolution, with each encounter constituting a perceptual experience that empowers individual outcomes and discoveries. As Anselmo (who died in 2023) explained in a statement published in the English edition of Germano Celant’s Arte Povera (1969), the “work really is the physication of the force of an action, of the energy of a situation or an event.”
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