50 years of Arte Povera with Germano Celant

From 22 November to 2 December, Barcelona will host a new edition of Dart Festival. The festival, the first in Spain to focus exclusively on documentary filmmaking on contemporary art, will bring the latest national and international productions to the public.

For this year’s edition, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Barcelona and Dart co-host the special section of the festival, aiming to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of Arte Povera, the radical movement that has positioned itself as the most influential contribution of Italian art to the international scene of the 20th century. The programme of the “50 years of Arte Povera” section will open at MACBA on Thursday, November 22nd, with a lecture by Italian curator and art critic Germano Celant, creator of the term “Arte Povera”, followed by the screening of the documentary “Intorno a Marisa”, by Simona Confalonieri (2013).

The official section of Dart will open on Thursday, November 29th, with the session to be held at Aribau Multicines and, from Friday 30th November to Sunday 2nd December, it will continue with the rest of the documentaries of the programme at Cines Girona.