I suppose that a good point from which to start is to ask whether the effort expended is proportionate to the result achieved. When I was a graduate student in Canada there was an often repeated joke which went as follows. “What is the definition of a sociologist?” The answer was, “Somebody who needs to … Read more
Well, there’s a blast from the past! I think that I last encountered the work of this contemporary Italian artist in 2014, when quite by chance I stumbled across a very good exhibition of his work in the north Italian town of Bassano del Grappa.* Impressed by what I saw there I bought a book … Read more
The term arte povera refers to an approach to art that emerged in Italy in the 1970s, although it spread fairly widely after then. It means, literally, “poor art”, although that is not intended to refer to the quality of the art but to the nature of the materials with which artists work. Instead of … Read more