Arte Povera artist Piero Gilardi has passed away at the age of 80. Gilardi, known for his sculptures of the merger of technology and nature, gained fame during the 60s with his “Tappeti-natura” (“Nature-carpets”) during the Arte Povera movement. He briefly left the commercial art world, but made a comeback years later. Gilardi was committed to social, political, and ecological issues, having participated in workers’ protests and creating a rubber effigy of the owner of Fiat. His works were exhibited in a 2017 retrospective at the MAXXI Museum in Rome.
Arte Povera artist Piero Gilardi has passed away at the age of 80. Gilardi, known for his sculptures of the merger of technology and nature, gained fame during the 60s with his “Tappeti-natura” (“Nature-carpets”) during the Arte Povera movement. He briefly left the commercial art world, but made a comeback years later. Gilardi was committed to social, political, and ecological issues, having participated in workers’ protests and creating a rubber effigy of the owner of Fiat. His works were exhibited in a 2017 retrospective at the MAXXI Museum in Rome.