October 13th, 2009
Michelangelo Pistoletto – Venus of Rags
Tags/ Posted by Aurelio MadridWrite poems because you have been shattered, because poetry is sacred and holy, because a poem left unwritten dies and you become a walking tomb, a whitewashed sepulcher.continue reading this poem
Venus of the Rags is redolent of the radical sixties & also an icon of Italian Arte Povera. Arte Povera was young & getting started when Pistoletto created the Venus. The sculpture speaks to a few key ideas of this style. Arte Povera is seen as anti-Modernist in that it ostensibly rejected the idealistic high-Modern minimalism of the time.
