Michelangelo
Pistoletto
Michelangelo
Pistoletto
Pistoletto
Italian, born in 1933
Michelangelo Pistoletto strives to push life into art. His oeuvre is expressed through a large array of mediums, in particular painting, photography and installations, as well as film and theater. If his oeuvre is composed of renewal and diversity, its coherence resides in its conceptual audacity.
Trained in painting by his father and in a graphic design school, Michelangelo Pistoletto gets noticed in the early 1960s with his Quadri specchianti (mirror paintings) series. By applying images obtained through photographic transfer on highly polished steel plates, the artist includes both the viewer and their surroundings in the work of art. Figura di Profil (1962) and Metrocubo d'infinito (1966), both held in the Pinault Collection, illustrate this approach. At the end of the decade, Pistoletto's installations with everyday materials make him a leading figure of Arte Povera. In the 1990s, his actions in urban and social environments together with the Cittadellarte Foundation and the Biella University of Ideas reinforce the political dimension of his work.
The Michelangelo Pistoletto artworks held in the Pinault Collection were first presented in 2006 at the Where Are We Going? exhibition at Palazzo Grassi, in Venice.
Trained in painting by his father and in a graphic design school, Michelangelo Pistoletto gets noticed in the early 1960s with his Quadri specchianti (mirror paintings) series. By applying images obtained through photographic transfer on highly polished steel plates, the artist includes both the viewer and their surroundings in the work of art. Figura di Profil (1962) and Metrocubo d'infinito (1966), both held in the Pinault Collection, illustrate this approach. At the end of the decade, Pistoletto's installations with everyday materials make him a leading figure of Arte Povera. In the 1990s, his actions in urban and social environments together with the Cittadellarte Foundation and the Biella University of Ideas reinforce the political dimension of his work.
The Michelangelo Pistoletto artworks held in the Pinault Collection were first presented in 2006 at the Where Are We Going? exhibition at Palazzo Grassi, in Venice.
