Jermano Chelant died

On April 29, an Italian art critic and curator, chief theoretician of the Arte Povera, Jermano Chelant, died in Milan at the age of 80.

According to Harper Bazaar with reference to Fondazione Prada and the Italian media, the cause of death was the complications caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Jermano Chelant was born in 1940 in Genoa, studied the history of art at Genoa University, and since 1963 edited the Genoese magazine about architecture, visual arts, design, music and literature Marcatrè .

In 1967, Jermano Chelant introduced the term Arte Povera (“Poor Art”), publishing a new direction in the Roman magazine Flash Art in Italian art, among whose representatives were artists as Mikelangelo Pistoletto, Mario and Mariza Merts, Giuseppe Peon, Giulio Paolini, Giovanni, Giovanni Anselmo, Pierrot Jilardi, Aligiero Boatti, Yannis Kunellis and Pino Pascali.

In the late 1960s, Jermano Chelant organized several exhibitions of Arte Povera artists in Italy, subsequently published a number of theoretical works on this direction.

Jermano Chelant was the curator of exhibitions of Keit Kharring, Louise Nevelson, class of Oldenburg, Joel-Piter Witkin, co-director of the Documenta 7 exhibition in Kassel (1982), artistic director of the First Florentine Biennale (1996), the main curator of the 47th Venice Biennale (1997), curator of Pavilion Brazil at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), in 1988 he was appointed chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art of Solomon R. Guggenheim (New York), since 1996 he was an art and scientific director of Fondazione Prada (Milan).