When Attitudes Become Form

Osei Bonsu talks to curator Germano Celant about the enduring relevance of the Italian art movement, Arte Povera – a term Celant coined 50 years ago

Curator and Fondazione Prada director Germano Celant worked with artist Thomas Demand and architect Rem Koolhaas to reproduce Harald Szeemann’s seminal exhibition of 1969

If old attitudes could become form again, what would they look like? Organized by the Fondazione Prada, the exhibition ‘When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969 / Venice 2013’ at Ca’ Corner della Regina ambitiously sets out to reconstruct Harald Szeemann’s seminal exhibition ‘Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form. Works – Concepts – Processes – Situations – Information’, originally staged at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland in 1969.