Paolo Mussat Sartor
OBIETTIVO, ARTE POVERA
Un viaggio nell’arte dal 1968
Galleria Gracis, Milan
January 29 – April 10

Critical essay by Laura Cherubini

Galleria Gracis presents OBIETTIVO, ARTE POVERA. Un viaggio nell’arte dal 1968 (A Journey through Art since 1968), a solo exhibition by photographer Paolo Mussat Sartor (Turin, 1947), who, through his images, chronicled Arte Povera and the international modern and contemporary art scene during the 1970s. His work offers a critical reading of the artists’ output that goes beyond mere documentation, becoming an authentic and vibrant testimony of that heroic era.

The exhibition’s title encompasses the key concepts that form the project’s guiding thread. The OBIETTIVO (lens) is that of Mussat Sartor’s camera, fused with his gaze and vision of reality. The VIAGGI (journeys) evoke the series of photographs taken from the driver’s seat of his car between the 1970s and 1990s, when he traveled across Europe to document exhibitions and artists.

Image, Journeys. Paolo Mussat Sartor