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Giovanni Anselmo: Arte Povera and Beyond Giovanni Anselmo is one of the many Artists who emerged in Italy after World War II within an Art Movement called Arte Povera. Anselmo was born in Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Italy, in 1934, and fell into the Arte Povera movement with the coming of a show in Turin in 1967. Taking place in three different locations Anselmo exhibited with 11 other artists including List: Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. Arte Povera 1999 p.52
 * 1) 	Getulio Alviani
 * 2) 	Alighiero Boetti
 * 3) 	Luciano Fabro
 * 4) 	Mari Merz
 * 5) 	Aldo Mondino
 * 6) 	Ugo Nespolo
 * 7) 	Gianni Piacentino
 * 8) 	Michelangelo Pistoletto
 * 9) 	Paolo Scheggi
 * 10) 	Gianni Emilio Simonetti
 * 11) 	Gilberto Zorio

The basis of Arte Povera derives from the act of rebuilding Italy after being traumatized by WWII. This inspired artists of the time to think about ideas of destruction, construction, collaboration, power, and nature in a very different way. [Arte Povera] was created by [Germano Celant] in 1967. Translated as "poor art" due to the abstract materiality of the work which stretches from more traditional art in earlier movements. Material used by Giovanni Anselmo consisted mainly of stone and natural materials taken outside their habitat and placed in a gallery space, transformed to create tension and power within the work.

Anselmo was also part of a collective titled ["Diposito d'arte presente'] (Deposit of Current art). The space was open to all artists as a work space for meetings and a space for group exhibitions. The space began operation in 1967, initially by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Piero Gilardi with financial support from Gian Enzo Sperone and Marcello Levi. The factory space was mostly inhabited by the artist whose names are written above. Ultimately it becomes a space run by the artists.

Works
 * 1) .	Direction (1967)
 * 2) .	Senza titolo (Eating Structure) (1968) Granite and Lettuce
 * 3) .	Torsion series (1968) stone and leather
 * 4) .	Tutto (everything) (1973)

1. Multiple Directional pieces were made by Anselmo, one was made with cloth, water, and a small needle which reacted to to earths magnetic field. Another was made with a compass needle mounted on the piece that places the work not only in the space but also in the universe based on the magnets direction. The series depicts natural forces of the world and universe using experiments to expand these ideas.

2. The Eating Structure deals with time, another natural force that nothing can escape. This work becomes a time based performance due to the decay of the lettuce and the motion of the stone falling to the floor. The life of nature has past and is marked within the space activated by the dead stone. 

3. These constructs were designed multiple times to explore angles of tension and power. The material consists of wood and an Iron rod in which the leather was wrapped. Energy cannot live without multiple elements involved, action and reaction no matter what they might be act upon one another to create a force that is no longer static.

4. Anselmo's work reaches beyond what is visible. He has the ability to transform space and time to the limit where it is no longer what the natural world thinks it to be, which is reality and laws of nature that are unchangeable. The work of Anselmo and Arte Povera alters what the viewer sees in everyday life, and reality goes under a transformation. TUTTO meaning "All" has been split into two sections, drawn and printed in multiple fashions, again creating two forces to act upon one another to construct a single idea and can be deconstructed again to mean separate points.