PROGRAMME >> EVENT #32  

sunday sept. 2.time 15.30.sala multimediale canale lunense - euro 4,00
Michelangelo Pistoletto - Lay spirituality in the mirror

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Since 1961, Pistoletto has explored the spiritual dimension ‘phenomenologically’ through his mirror works. He relates the mind to the mirror in the way the brain relates to the eye. The mirror becomes an optical prosthesis that multiplies the thought capacity of the mind. His “Mirror paintings” are eyes open wide at an objective, yet surprising, view of the world. His artistic process leads us to the realisation that we are a particle of the universe, in the same way that a fragment of mirror is of a whole mirror.

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in  Biella in 1933. His work is in major collections of modern and contemporary art around the world: Beaubourg, Paris; MOMA, New York;  National Museum, Seoul; Tate Modern, London; Toyota Museum, Toyota; Museo Reìna Sophia, Madrid; Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Nationalgalerie, Berlin, etc. Professor at the Vienna academy of Fine Arts. Founder of the international centre Cittadellarte – Biella. In 2003 he was awarded the Leone d’Oro for his career at the 50th Venice Biennale and in 2004 the University of Turin awarded him a Laurea Honoris Causa in Political Science.