Arte Povera Exhibition Travels from Manila to Kuala Lumpur

The exhibition 'Arte Povera: Italian Landscape' opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, curated by Danilo Eccher and promoted by Italian Ambassador Giorgio Guglielmino. It features works by ten Arte Povera masters—including Mario Merz, Alighiero Boetti, and others—alongside pieces by younger artists Francesco Arena and Gianni Caravaggio. The show will travel to the National Gallery of Kuala Lumpur in June 2020. Eccher conceived the exhibition as a 'landscape' to be experienced rather than a traditional white-cube display, emphasizing participation and spectacle inspired by critics like Pierre Restany, Rudi Fuchs, Norman Rosenthal, Harald Szeemann, and Germano Celant. Works were chosen directly with artists or their foundations; Boetti's 12-meter embroidery 'Prisenti' (1985) is on loan from the Municipality of Gibellina, leaving Sicily for the first time. The exhibition is part of Guglielmino's broader program promoting contemporary Italian culture abroad, which also included lectures by Eccher, critic Ludovico Pratesi, and gallerist Laura Chari, as well as the participation of Galleria Tiziana Di Caro at Art Fair Philippines in February 2020. Guglielmino plans to organize a future exhibition on the Transavanguardia.