Art Critic and Curator Germano Celant has Died in Milan

Germano Celant has died at the age of 80. He had been hospitalized in the intensive care of the San Raffaele hospital in Milan for about two months and did not succeed in his fight against complications due to Coronavirus.

Born in Genoa in 1940, Germano Celant was a curator, art critic and theorist. Having coined the term Arte Povera in 1967, he promoted the movement and its artists ever since. Kounellis, Paolini, Prini and Pascali were just some of the artists who, together with Celant, gave shape to a poetics based on the recovery of the link with “matier and brought into the present, as well highlighted by the critic in one of his most famous writings, “Appunti for a guerrilla”, dated 1967.

Among his latest activities, he was the Artistic and Scientific Superintendent of Fondazione Prada, as well as the Curator of Fondazione Aldo Rossi, Milan, and Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice. In 2016, he was the Project Director of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Floating Piers, at Lago d’Iseo, Italy and the curator of the major retrospective Jannis Kounellis at Fondazione Prada, Venice (2019).