Castello di Rivoli at Artissima | Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Curator of the exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto. Molti di uno (Many of One), in conversation with the artist
03.11.2023 from 16:30 to 17:30
Friday November 3 4,30 pm – Meeting Point
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Director and Curator of the exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto. Molti di uno (Many of One), in conversation with the artist
The conversation will be held in Italian
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev with the artist will introduce the exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto. Molti di uno (Many of one), set up in the Castello di Rivoli Manica Lunga, a large unpublished work that acts as a device through which to reread Pistoletto’s art (Biella, 1933). Among the artists who redefined the concept of art starting from the mid-sixties of the last century, Pistoletto questioned the concept of personal identity from the first half of the fifties and took the path of the self-portrait as an emblematic expression of his thought. In 1961 he painted his first mirror painting Il presente (The Present) in which his self-portrait stands out against a black background obtained with very shiny acrylic paint which makes it reflective. This work opens up to life as an exchange of relationships and perspectives, determining a new space-time dimension. For Pistoletto, overcoming the boundaries marked by the pictorial dimension represents the opening to a landscape that overlooks the contemporaneity of existence.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Director and Artistic Director Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti
Photo Andrea Guermani
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Photo Pierluigi Di Pietro
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Venere degli stracci (Venus of the Rags), 1967
reproduction of Venus in cement covered in mica, rags
Venus, installation, 150 x 280 x 100 cm
Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
on loan to Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino