Tate Modern : Room 3 - Arte Povera and Anti-form

My quick sketch of Giuseppe Penone's 'Tree of 12 Metres"(1980)

Long shot of exhibition room. In Shot: Giovanni Penone's 'Tree of 12 Metres" (Far Centre), Giovanni Anselmo's "Direction" (Centre) & Kishio Suga's "Ren-Shiki-Tai" (Immediate Centre)

Susumu Koshimizu's "From Surface To Surface" (made in 1971 & re-made in 1986)

Kishio Suga's "Ren-Shiki-Tai" - Angle 1 (1973 then partly re-made in 1987)

Kishio Suga's "Ren-Shiki-Tai" - Angle 2

Robert Morris's "Untitled" (1967-8 then re-made in 2008)

Giuseppe Penone's 'Tree of 12 Metres'- Angle 2

Photograph taken of Lynda Benglis's "Quartered Meteor" (1969, cast 1975)

Side angle of "Quartered Meteor"

Seung Taek Lee's "Godret Stone" (Date Unknown)

Tate Modern Room 3 Review:

Zero to Infinity is the name of the exhibition currently residing in the Tate Modern since 2001, with all the works within belonging to the Arte Povera group. The Arte Povera group is a collection of artists that create modern art and were active from 1967-1972 throughout various cities in Italy. The Arte Povera movement were mainly assembled as a result of taking radical stance against government and industry in Italy at the time. Art critic and curator Germano Celant is credited for coining the ‘Arte Povera’ term initially and the movement consisted of artists such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giovanni Anselmo, Giuseppe Penone, Pino Pascali and many more. Simply translated ‘Arte Povera’ means ‘poor art’ and one of their points of emphasis was to create art by using ‘poor’ /everyday materials and creating beautiful art. The exhibition is located on Level 4 of the Tate Modern in London. The theme of this exhibition is to explore the ever-changing physical states and to break the mould of the previous ideas of art, sculptures and what materials should be used and included to create fine art. The exhibition was curated by Mark Godfrey and Helen Sainsbury, and is a retrospective exhibition with the works originally made during the 60-70’s and some subsequently re-made due to some of the works naturally degrading with time. I personally did not particularly enjoy visiting this exhibition but did enjoy Giuseppe Penone’s ‘Tree of 12 metres” and marvelled at this piece, not being able to make head nor tail of how Penone achieved this piece, but modern/fine art is not my field. Overall I found this whole process quite tedious, it failed to do much for me as I didn’t see a single thing that was beneficial for me personally and my own work.