The scrappy chic of arte povera

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Paris’s Bourse de Commerce, now home to the Pinault art collection, has welcomed many grand visitors over the centuries – but from last month, the glass and metal dome has been playing host to more humble constituents with its Arte Povera exhibition. Mattresses, twigs, foam and rags: these are materials that the revolutionary 20th-century Italian movement used…