Italian art historian, critic and curator Germano Celant has died of coronavirus.
MILAN — Italian art historian, critic and curator Germano Celant has died here at age 80. The cause of death was the coronavirus, after he had been hospitalized for a few weeks.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Fondazione Prada’s presidents Patrizio Bertelli and Miuccia Prada said they were “deeply saddened for the loss of a friend and traveling companion.” As reported, in 2013 Miuccia Prada and Celant were honored by the Independent Curators International with the Leo award and the Agnes Gund Curatorial award, respectively, for their contributions to contemporary art, the work of the Fondazione Prada internationally and for the exhibition “When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013.
In 1967, Celant wrote “Appunti per una guerriglia” — or “Notes for a guerrilla,” in English — which is considered the manifesto of the Arte Povera movement and was published in the Flash Art magazine founded by Italian publisher and art critic Giancarlo Politi. One day Celant arrived from Genoa, “all dressed in black” and at the center of the meeting, he addressed the artists saying: “We have to establish a military regime.[…]Nobody will be able to set up an exhibition without the approval of the others, nobody will be able to decide to show in a museum or a gallery if not supported by everybody else.”
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