Michelangelo Pistoletto

Biella, Italy, 1933

Acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His works are to be found in the contemporary art collections of leading international museums. In 2003 he won the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifelong Achievement, while in 2007, in Jerusalem, he received the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts. In 2013 the Louvre hosted his personal exhibition and he received the Praemium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo. Since the ‘60s his work mainly deals with the subject matter of reflection, introducing the dimension of time (not just represented, but presented in reality); the inclusion of the viewer inside the work; the joining of opposite polarities as static/dynamic, surface/depth, absolute/relative, constituted and activated by the interaction within the photographic image.

Represented by Giorgio Persano, Turin.