Stefano Arienti (born 1961) is an Italian artist whose art is inspired by the Arte Povera and Conceptual movements.Baldi, Pio, "Stefano Arienti," MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, 5 Continents Editions, 2004. He lives and works in Milan, Italy. He was born in Asola, Lombardy.
Career His work is made of found materials such as magazines, postcards, newspapers and books. Source materials are transformed through minimal actions such as folding or puncturing done repeatedly and systematically.Pioselli, Alessandra, Artforum, March 2004 He has exhibited extensively and in 2005, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte held a retrospective of his work. In 2008, Francesco Bonami curated the monumental exhibition "Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008" at the Palazzo Grassi that included Arienti's Cassetto con strisce, 1987-1989.Italics - Artists - Palazzo, 2008 In 2009, the exhibition travelled to MCA Chicago.Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008, November 14, 2009 - February 14, 2010 In 2007, Arienti was commissioned by Art Pace for their International Artist-In-Residence program. There he exhibited Library, a landscape of 400 bushels of wheat and 99 books that were buried within. In the Fall of 2010, Arienti showed his third solo exhibition, natura, natura, natura at greengrassi in London, UK.greengrassi, Stefano Arienti - natura, natura, natura, 2010.
References
External links Isabella Stuart Gardener Museum Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte Palazzo Grassi MCA Chicago Art Pace Lehmann Maupin Gallery greengrassi