Emilio Prini Biography
Emilio Prini was an artist born in 1943 who lived and worked in Rome. In 1967, he contributed to the foundation of Arte Povera, one of the most influential artistic movements of the second half of the twentieth century. In 1969, he participated in significant and important exhibitions such as "Op Losse Schroeven", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and "When Attitudes Become Form", Kunsthalle Bern. He also participated in the exhibition "Information", MoMA, New York in 1970 and "Contemporanea", Villa Borghese, Rome in 1973. However, starting from 1974, he reduced his exhibition activity to a minimum. Prini was very prolific between 1967 and 1972, but many of his works remained unfinished or hypothetical. These are notes, instructions, formulas and nursery rhymes in which important issues emerged such as the idea of emptiness, duration, the space/image relationship or variability within an absolute given. In 2007, he presented an empty room in Rome, accepting emptiness as an authentic physical condition. In 1971, he left the pages dedicated to him blank in the catalog of the "Arte Povera" exhibition at the Kunstverein in Munich. In September 2009, she sent a friend to read in full all the data contained in the invitation letter from the curator Carolyn Christov Bakargiev to the Castello di Rivoli. In the exhibition "Arte Povera 2011" curated by Germano Celant, he presented a new intervention. Prini has always considered each of his works open and has redefined the role of art and the artist in an almost alchemical key.
