Michelangelo Pistoletto

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Michelangelo Pistoletto at Serpentine Gallery (London)

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Serpentine Gallery
12 July – 17 September 2011
Michelangelo Pistoletto is one of the pre-eminent contemporary artists working today. Born in Biella, Italy, in 1933, Pistoletto was a leading figure in the development of both Arte Povera and conceptual art. He began as a painter in the mid-1950s, and in the 1960s received critical acclaim for his series of Mirror Paintings. These works broke down the traditional notions of figurative art, reflecting their surroundings and the viewer as a part of the image, linking art and life in an ever-changing spectacle.

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Michelangelo Pistoletto at MAXXI (Rome)

Michelangelo Pistoletto: Da Uno a Molti, 1956-1974
MAXXI
4 March 2011 – 15 August 2011
MAXXI is reinforcing its international vocation through profound synergy with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the leading American museums, and is taking to America the most important exhibition devoted to Michelangelo Pistoletto, recognised in Europe as one of the greatest living artists and considered in the United States as a sensitive pioneer of contemporary artistic practises.

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