Kounellis was a central Arte Povera figure who combined humble, unconventional materials with intense emotional and political titles, creating works on raw substrates where concept and material tension carry the expressive weight rather than technical refinement.

Merz worked within Arte Povera using ephemeral, found, and economically marginal materials to foreground process and conceptual meaning, often pairing minimal material surfaces with charged textual or symbolic elements that create emotional counterpoint similar to Zorio's approach in Odio.

Penone shares Zorio's Arte Povera commitment to humble organic materials and textured surfaces as sites of conceptual and bodily investigation, producing minimal works where the material substrate itself becomes the primary vehicle of meaning against commercial and institutional expectations.