Francesco Bonami Remembers Late Curator Germano Celant: ‘He Changed the Way Art Was Made’

A curator, like an artist, can have in his career a single intuition powerful enough to leave an indelible mark on the history of art. Lucio Fontana made the revolutionary gesture of slashing a white canvas, and that changed painting forever; Germano Celant did something similar by slashing a gash in art history with Arte Povera.Celant curated an endless number of memorable exhibitions in the span of a career that lasted more than half a century and was tragically and abruptly cut short by Covid