Michelangelo Pistoletto: Alter Ego, Silkscreen on Cardboard, 1984

Michelangelo PISTOLETTO


Alter Ego 1984

Serigraphy with 14 color bars on Murillo Bianco cardboard of Cartiere Miliani Fabriano

cm. 70x100

Artwork included in the folder "Contrappunti - 7 notazioni visive di Accardi, Boetti, Buren, Kounellis, LeWitt, Paolini e Pistoletto" published by A.E.I.O.U Edizioni d'arte (Rome).

Entitled, signed and numbered by hand by the artist on the front.

N. of 100 copies.

Perfect conditions, kept intact inside the protective folder not framed.

Present certificate of authenticity and provenance (signature and embossed stamp of the publisher with photographic reference and numbering)


The image shows a numbered/framed specimen for illustrative purposes only. The numbering of the sample delivered may be different depending on availability.


The subject is a study of the sculpture "Alter-Ego, 1984

Acrylic on polyurethane, cm 700 x 500 x 200

Installation view, Nuovelle Biennale di Parigi, La Villette, 1985

Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella" in photo.


BIOGRAPHY


Michelangelo Pistoletto (Biella, 1933). He began exhibiting in 1955 and in 1960 held his first solo show in Turin. In the two-year period 1961-1962 he came to the realization of the "Quadri specchianti" (Mirror paintings), which directly include in the work the presence of the viewer, the real dimension of time and reopen the perspective. With these works he quickly achieved international success, which allowed him to set up, during the sixties, solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. The Quadri specchianti (Mirror paintings) were to form the basis of his subsequent artistic production and theoretical reflection. Between 1965 and 1966 he produced a series of works entitled "Oggetti in meno" (Objects Less), considered fundamental for the birth of Arte Povera, an artistic movement of which he was the animator and protagonist. Starting in 1967, outside of traditional exhibition spaces, he produced actions that represented the first manifestations of that "creative collaboration" that brought together artists from different disciplines and increasingly broad sectors of society. Between 1975 and 1976 he held a cycle of twelve consecutive exhibitions in Turin, "Le Stanze" (The Rooms), the first of a series of works articulated over the course of a year. In 1978 he held an exhibition where he indicated the direction of his future research and artistic production: "Division and multiplication of the mirror" and "Art takes on religion". At the beginning of the eighties he creates a series of sculptures in rigid polyurethane, translated into marble for the personal exhibition of 1984 at Forte di Belvedere in Florence. From 1985 to 1989 he creates the series of "dark" volumes called Art of Squalor. During the nineties, with "Progetto Arte" and with the creation in Biella of "Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto" and of the "Università delle Idee", he put art in active relation with the different areas of the social fabric. In 2003 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. In 2007 he received in Jerusalem the Wolf Foundation Prize in Arts, "for his constantly creative career.