{"id":4656,"date":"2018-02-10T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T11:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marottaeditori.com\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2018-02-10T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T11:33:38","slug":"michelangelo-pistoletto-from-the-mirror-to-the-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/michelangelo-pistoletto-from-the-mirror-to-the-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelangelo Pistoletto: from the mirror to the space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michelangelo Pistoletto’s works have overwhelmingly come into our collective imagination: La Venere degli Stracci<\/em>, i Quadri Specchianti<\/em>, projects such as\u00a0Love Difference<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Terzo Paradiso <\/em>are just some of the\u00a0keypoints that draw the artist’s artistic path. Last year, his art crossed the ground’s boundaries to reach the outer space.<\/p>\n

Born in Biella in 1933, Michelangelo Pistoletto<\/strong> took the first steps along his artistic education within his father’s lab, who was a painter and a restorer.\u00a0 Then, he attended the graphic design school directed by Armando Testa. In the 50’s he started his artistic activity in exhibitions with the series\u00a0Autoritratti<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Pistoletto – Quadri Specchianti Picture: Flickr<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A first breakthrough occurred at the beginning of 60’s , with i\u00a0Quadri Specchianti<\/strong>: these were made bringing pictorial elements photographically onto onionskin, then, applied to a stainless steel plate polished to perfection. They were able to capture and involve the spectator as well as the dimension of time within the artistic work.<\/p>\n

Collaboration, aggregation and commitment in Pistoletto’s poetry.<\/h2>\n

Few years later, Pistoletto started developing his activity beyond the traditional exhibition space. \u00a0In 1967 the Zoo was born<\/strong>: the artist opened his studio to coworkers from the most different disciplines and to the public too. In fact, during several meetings, he developed a number of creative collaborations.\u00a0 With the\u00a0Zoo<\/em> Pistoletto participated in\u00a0Biennale di Venezia<\/strong> of 1968, where he got chance to publish the\u00a0Manifest of collaboration<\/em>. His unifying action represented the\u00a0 integral part of his poetics developed over the years.\u00a0 In 1978 – 1979 in\u00a0Atlanta<\/strong>, he gave birth to\u00a0<\/strong>Creative Collaboration<\/em>, as in, a form of artistic collaboration extended to the whole city. In\u00a0Corniglia<\/strong>, his same idea will be developed through the time: together with the inhabitants of the small town he will perform at Teatro Quirino in Roma, with a show called\u00a0Anno Uno <\/em>(1981).<\/p>\n

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Venere degli Stracci, 1967 – ph Jean Pierre D’Alb\u00e8ra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even within Poor Art,<\/em> Pistoletto acted as a catalyst for artists from Torino and Rome with the essential role of unifier between the two.\u00a0 From cooperation to social commitment the passage was little: in 1994 Pistoletto gave birth to\u00a0Progetto Arte<\/em><\/strong>, which through a programmatic manifest, public meetings, demonstrations and exhibitions, promoted art as the core function of a social responsible transformation. The activities linked to the project have been developed even today in the\u00a0Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation<\/em>, a disposed manufacture from Biella, bought by the artist in 1991.<\/p>\n

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Love Difference, 2013, Austria – Ph. Universalmuseum Joanneum<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2002,\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>a project, product of Cittadellarte and called\u00a0Love Difference – Artistic Movement for Intermediterranean Politics <\/em><\/strong>, was launched. For it, the artist developed a massive mirroring table shaped as to resemble the Mediterranean sea: this table will host numerous activities aimed at promoting a political system that embraces mutual differences.<\/p>\n

Pistoletto, Naples and the space<\/h2>\n

In 2010 Pistoletto published his essay\u00a0Il Terzo Paradiso<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0 drawing its symbol as well: a reproduction of the mathematical sign of the infinity, in which instead of 2 circles there were 3.\u00a0 The third one in the middle reproduced the female womb, where a new human kind able to overcome the disruptive conflict between nature and artifice, would have been generated.<\/p>\n

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The Rebirth, Ginevra, ph. Cittadellarte<\/a><\/p>\n

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This Symbol, simple but powerful, was installed in 2014 in the hall\u00a0of the European Council\u00a0seat in Bruxelles during a period of Italian Presidency. It also became an artwork entitled\u00a0Rebirth,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and installed within the park of the\u00a0United Nations building in Geneva,\u00a0\u00a0it was made with 193 stones, each one for a member country of United States (ONU).<\/p>\n

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Pistoletto, Terzo Paradiso, installazione al Louvre (Parigi) – ph. Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Terzo Paradiso<\/em> arrived to Naples as well:\u00a0Pistoletto (who is also the author of the Metro Station 1 and 2 at Garibaldi Sq. ) gifted a version of his work to the Focus Foundation\u00a0 in the heart of\u00a0 Quartieri Spagnoli in Naples (2017).<\/p>\n

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Terzo paradiso to the Foqus Foundation – ph. Foqus<\/a><\/p>\n

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His work is featured by the outline of the Terzo Paradiso itself, placed on a 360x240cm mirror, upon which citizens could write or sign with permanent marks. The mirror was directed in a way that it reflected life out of the small street facing the Foundation as it would almost be an osmotic exchange between inner and outer space. Finally , in the same year, a reproduction of the Terzo Paradiso symbol has been choosen for the logo of the Vita space mission <\/strong>bringing the utopic beauty of Pistoletto’art through the stars.\u00a0For Bolaffi he made the cover of Acquarium<\/a>, edited within the multiples of art dedicated to the Zodiac signs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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