Image: Artizon Museum, Tokyo
The Artizon Museum Library has recommended a Japanese-language book on Arte Povera as a reference for a Sottsass exhibition. The post, published on 19 August 2026, identifies the recommendation as the second instalment in a series of selected reading suggestions connected with the exhibition.
The book is Ayako Ikeno’s ‘Arte Povera: Art, Life, and Politics in Postwar Italy’ (‘アルテ・ポーヴェラ 戦後イタリアにおける芸術・生・政治’), published by Keio University Press in 2016. The library’s post describes it as an attempt to reconsider the artistic movement that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s.
According to the recommendation, the book also provides a closer examination of Ettore Sottsass and the Italian art world of his period. The post presents that historical context as a way to deepen understanding of Sottsass’s relationship to the artistic debates and practices of postwar Italy.
The recommendation was issued through the Artizon Museum’s library communications and directed readers to the publisher’s information page for the book. The post does not provide exhibition dates or specify a venue for the Sottsass exhibition, and it gives no further details about the exhibition’s checklist or programme.
The library’s selection places a study of Arte Povera alongside the exhibition’s focus on Sottsass, while keeping the recommendation centred on historical and critical reading. Ikeno’s book was published in 2016 by Keio University Press.
