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“Scuola di Piazza del Popolo”
In the
early 60s some young artists such as Mario Schifano, Gaetano Festa, Franco
Angeli, Cesare Tacchi, Mimmo Rotella and Giosetta Fioroni begin to gather in
Piazza del Popolo to the "Caffè
Rosati".
Short
also adhere Mario Ceroli, Pino Pascali, Kounellis, Renato Mambor, Salvo Lombardo
and later Joseph Hooks, Fabio Mauri Umberto Bignardi and Francesco Lo Savio.
These
artists gravitate around the gallery "La
tartaruga" (that, since 1963 is
moved by Plinio De Martiis to Piazza
del Popolo), and the Gallery's "l’Attico" of Fabio Sargentini.
The
school will never have a common artistic address, and from the beginning, as
well note the critic Maurizio Calvesi there are three
different currents, uneven among them: Schifano, Angeli Festa - Ceroli,
Kounellis, Pascali - Lombardo, Mambor, Tacchi, that soon will take his own personal way.
The
so-called "School of Piazza del
Popolo" will never achieve its own specific identity, as confirmed by
the Venice Biennale of 1964 which recognizes the American"Pop Art" ,
with works by J. Dine, J. Johnes, Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, others;
numerous artists exhibited in the Italian Pavilion of the "school" but
only as individual: Angels with canvas
covered with gauze, Schifano presents enamels on paper reported on canvas,
Festa presents paintings with part of Michelangelo figure, Fioroni with works
conceived as a photographic sequences and Ceroli that exhibited in the gardens
the "Cassa Sistina".
In
1964/65 some artists such as Pascali and Ceroli begin to establish themselves within the Roman artistic world, anticipating
the art encroachment towards the physical space, the installation, until 1967
when virtually the school concludes its existence to give space to the Movement
"Arte Povera"carried out in
Rome by the Galleries: L’“Attico", "La Salita" and "La
Tartaruga".
The
events that characterize this date are:
- the
exhibition of "8 Roman painters"
(Angeli, Ceroli, Festa, Fioroni, Kunellis, Pascali, Schifano and Uncini)
presented by Maurizio Calvesi to the
“Foscherari Gallery” of Bologna in
collaboration with the gallery "La
Tartaruga" of Rome.
- the exhibition
christened with the title "Arte Povera"
organized by Germano Celant who
presents the painters: Bignardi, Ceroli, Kounellis, Mambor, Mattiacci, Pascali
and Uncini, who are turning towards the research of everyday object inspired by minimalism.
Artists who do not participate in the movement "Arte Povera" continue in his artistic activities in total autonomy.
