Sentences with phrase «povera type materials»

Using an assortment of Arte Povera type materials, Los Angeles based artist Fran Siegel constructs dense, eclectic visualizations of the history and demographic composition of different urban environments through the media of drawing and collage.

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His choice of organic, low - cost materials, such as newspaper, not only recalls the type of media used in the Arte Povera movement from the late 1960s, but suggests a connection between the degrading effects of age that newsprint and the body share.

In its general sense, «Arte Povera» (an Italian term meaning poor / impoverished art, allegedly derived from the «poor theatre» of the Polish film director Jerzy Grotowski) describes a type of avant - garde art made from «found objects» including worthless materials, like soil, bits of wood, rags, scraps of newspaper.