Contemporary Art: Michelangelo Pistoletto for Persano gallery at Artissima - Giuseppe Alletto art

#artissima #turín #art #artist #conceptualart #michelangelopistoletto #giorgiopersano #fair #artgalleries #contemporaryart #giuseppealletto #contemporaryartworks #modernart Contemporary Art: Michelangelo Pistoletto for Giorgio Persano art gallery at Artissima fair 2023 Turin Italy - Giuseppe Alletto artist Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella in 1933. He began to exhibit his work in 1955 and in 1960 he had his first solo show at Galleria Galatea in Turin. An inquiry into self-portraiture characterizes his early work. In the two-year period 1961-1962 made the first Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work, and open up perspective, reversing the Renaissance perspective that had been closed by the twentieth-century avant-gardes. These works quickly brought Pistoletto international acclaim, leading, in the sixties, to one-man shows in important galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. The Mirror Paintings are the founda