Arte Povera. Notes for a Guerrilla War
Germano Celant’s foundational text for Arte Povera, written in 1967, articulates the opposition between a “rich” art, osmotically tied to the system, and a “poor” art committed to contingency, to the event, to the ahistorical and to the present — an art that turns the artist “from an exploited figure into a guerrilla”.
English translation
The full English translation, «Arte Povera: Notes on a Guerrilla War», is available at Flash Art: flash—art.com — Germano Celant, Arte Povera: Notes on a Guerrilla War
Other languages
The Spanish and Catalan versions of this resonance reproduce José Luis Gil Aristu’s translation; the Italian version follows the original published in Flash Art (No 5, 1967).