Giovanni Anselmo (b. 1934, Borgofranco, Ivrea – d. 2023, Turin) is one of the legendary artists, who first emerged as part of the Arte Povera group during the second half of the 1960s while engaged in research aimed at highlighting the constant dialogue between the visible and the invisible. “Most of the reality is invisible and the visible things give us the possibility of deducing the invisible” said the artist. His visible materials are natural elements and industrial products, often seemingly modest – light projectors, magnetic needles, granite stone, photographs, dirt, and portions of ultramarine blue – while invisible materials include magnetic fields, gravitational force, and the surrounding space in which we happen to be. In 1967, he participated in the group exhibition “Arte Povera –Im Spazio” at La Bertesca gallery, in Genoa. His first solo show was in 1968 at Sperone gallery, Turin. That same year, he participated in “Prospect ‘68”, Dusseldorf and “9 at Leo Castelli”, New York. In 1972 he exhibited at Documenta 5, Kassel. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (1995), and at the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice (1996). In 2004 he exhibited at Museum Kurhaus, Kleve and in 2015 in Saint-Étienne at Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain. In 2016 at Castello di Rivoli, Turin and in 2019 at Accademia Nazionale San Luca in Rome. In 2024, the exhibition “Giovanni Anselmo. Beyond the horizon” first at Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and then at Maxxi in Rome was a homage to the artist after he passed away.