Piero Gilardi

 
Piero Gilardi (1942-2023) was a pioneer of Arte Povera and a proud advocate of an ecological-concerned undertaking in visual arts. He was a peripatetic artist who gathered information about experimental art and creators in the 1960s, promoting the work of Richard Long or Jan Dibbets, and introducing Bruce Nauman or Eva Hesse into Europe. He was also a political activist who marched with FIAT workers in the 1970s, and who founded, in the 2000s the Living Art Park, commissioning earthworks to contemporary artists such as Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster or Lara Almarcegui.
For all this and for much more—his design and fashion creations, his social endeavors, etc.—Piero Gilardi is emblematic of the evolutions of art and society since the mid-20th century. He was an artist whose works and theoretical researches are still relevant to map what art could achieve and how art could be useful in the "real world."
 
Piero Gilardi - Petit manuel d\'expression avec la mousse polyuréthane
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Artist's book: a pamphlet designed as a DIY guide on making works with foam rubber.
Piero Gilardi - Piccolo Manuale dell\'Espressione con la Gommapiuma
2013
Italian edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Artist's book: a pamphlet designed as a DIY guide on making works with foam rubber.
Piero Gilardi -
2012
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first comprehensive monograph on the pioneer of Arte Povera, inventor of a “relational aesthetics” in the 1960s, political activist, and advocate of an ecologically concerned undertaking in the visual arts
Piero Gilardi - Not for Sale - A la recherche de l\'art relationnel 1982-2000
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
This publication assembles twenty years worth of social, aesthetic and philosophical reflexions that essentially place the individual within the contemporary community.


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