'9 at Leo Castelli'
Castelli Warehouse, New York
December 1968
Installation views
This installation was the first to present the work of Arte Povera artists Anselmo and Zorio in New York alongside that of other international artists. '9 at Leo Castelli' organized at Robert Morris' suggestion, also included Bill Bollinger, and Eva Hesse, Stephen Kaltenbach, Bruce Nauman, Alan Saret, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier. While all the other artists shared a post-minimal aesthetic and created soft, anti form shapes. Anselmo and Zorio also used processes go physical or chemical transformation, and Anselmo's Senza titolo (Untitled). 1968, comprised a piece of cotton that absorbed water from a steel bin. Zorio's Piombi (Lead weights), 1968, was made up of two shallow lead containers in a corner of the gallery connected by an arched copper rod. One contained copper sulphate, the other hydrochloric acid. In time, crystals formed at each end of the rod, gradually growing toward one another.
-from "Arte povera edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev" Phaidon
