PISTOLETTO MICHELANGELO (n. 1933) PISTOLETTO MICHELANGELO (b. 1933) WITHOUT TITL…
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PISTOLETTO MICHELANGELO (n. 1933)

PISTOLETTO MICHELANGELO (b. 1933) WITHOUT TITLE (1986). charcoal and pastel on paper appllicated on canvas. Cm 189x219. on the back: signaturePROVENIENCEPrivate collection, RomeExPOSITIONThe Time in the Mirror, Grenoble, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, November 8, 1986 - January 11, 1987Operation from the installation "Il Tempo nello Specchio" made by Michelangelo Pistoletto in November 1986 at Centre National d'Art Contemporain Grenoble, consisting of a mirror and about 680 square meters of charcoal on paper.We are in the midst of the Art of Squalor: a cycle Pistoletto began in 1985 during the exhibition at Galleria Persano in Turin and ended in 1989 with the exhibition held in Rome at Galleria Pieroni. "Art of squalor, parasitic art, art of mortification. Surface of desolation, dull surface. Repulsive art that represents nothing. [...] Mass of shredded ideas, shredded objects, mangled, macerated, soaked and compressed meanings. Shattered tools and concepts: stellar dust, cosmic foam, meteoritic lava, sidereal ice. Fountains of grayish flows. Idiotic thicknesses of a crushed and smudged art, labored like childbirth. Art without weight or tools. But as gross as the swarming of a disgusting humanity. A cowardly and grave art that achieves maximum distance and maximum slowness without allowing itself to be touched by either infinity or stillness. The motion is as slow as the catastrophic motion of the universe. The rapidity of close motion, the violence of transformation, the speed of change in close distances is succeeded by the slowness of great distances. And the perception of contemporaneity, beyond time-space [...]"(M. Pistoletto, Poetica dura, Giorgio Persano Gallery, Turin 1985)

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PISTOLETTO MICHELANGELO (n. 1933)

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