Pino Pascali, born in 1935, is an Italian artist associated with the Arte Povera movement. He first works as a scenographer and graphic designer, experimenting with new materials for his artistic career. From 1960 to 1964, he produced “new-dada” works, and in 1965 he exhibited at the Galleria Ferrari in Verona, where he was defined, together with Mario Ceroli, as “the rising star of Italian art”. In 1966, at the Galleria Sperone in Turin, memories of the war in Albania inspired an exhibition at the Galleria Sperone in Turin on the theme of weapons.
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Since 1967, Pino Pascali has been one of the first pioneers of the Arte Povera movement, “poor art”, which consists of challenging the cultural industry, and more broadly the consumer society, according to the guerrilla model. Artistic activity privileges the creative process, concentrates on a minimum of means and aims to give meaning to common objects. This artistic movement is mainly nomadic and elusive. Pino Pascali was finally awarded the International Sculpture Prize at the 34th Venice Biennale in 1968.
