MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO

Michelangelo Pistoletto (B. 1933 Biella, Italy) is an italian artist who lives and works in Biella, where he founded in the early 90s Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto. 

Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist, Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His work mainly deals with the subject matter of reflection (especially in his Mirror Paintings) and the unification of art and everyday life.

Pistoletto is quoted saying, "In my mirror-paintings the dynamic reflection does not create a place, because it only reflects a place which already exists- the static silhouette does no more than re-propose an already existing place. But I can create a place by bringing about a passage between the photograph and the mirror: this place is whole time."​

 

Selected past exhibitions:​​

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Bourse de commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris  (2024)

GAM, Torino, Italy (2023)

Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy (2023)

Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy (2021)

Museo Bellas Artes, La Habana (2018)

Musée du Louvre, Paris (2016)

Musée du Louvre, Paris (2013)

Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia (2010)

Tate Modern, London (2009)

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (1994)

Documenta 7 and 9 in Kassel, Germany (1982 and 1992)

Venice Biennales, Venice, Italy  (1984, 1986, 1993) 

 

Selected public collections:​

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Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze, Italy 

Tate Modern, London, England 

LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art , LA, USA

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Museo del Novecento, Milano, Italy

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, US

MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, US

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, US

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 

Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy

MAXXI, Roma, Italy

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