Michelangelo Pistoletto (1933)

Aliases: Michelangelo Olivero-Pistoletto

Professions: Painter; Sculptor

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  Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933)

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  Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933)

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  Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933)

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  - Michelangelo Pistoletto , b. 1933 Lui e Lei che Parlano painted tissue paper collage on polished stainless steel

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Michelangelo Pistoletto Biography

(b Biella, Vercelli, 23 June 1933). Italian sculptor and painter. He grew up in Turin and from 1947 to 1958 was apprenticed to his father as a restorer. In 1947 he also produced his first paintings. Until 1962 he concentrated on portraits, influenced above all by the work of Francis Bacon. He soon realized, however, that he could never rival Bacon with conventional painting techniques. In 1962 he began instead to create life-size photographic likenesses of people and objects that he transferred on to reflective metal surfaces, as in Marzia with Child (painted tissue paper on polished stainless steel, 2*1.2 m, 1962–4; New York, Sonnabend priv. col.), creating an evocative interplay between the static printed image and moving reflections of the spectator on the mirrored surface. These works shared with Pop art a tribute to the poetic nature of objects, but their emphasis on process and on unconventional materials aligned them also with ARTE POVERA.

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