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Michelangelo Pistoletto

Michelangelo Pistoletto (Born 1933) is active/lives in Italy.  Michelangelo Pistoletto is known for Life-size figure paintings, photoscreen images, conceptual.

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Michelangelo Pistoletto was born on June 23, 1933, in Biella, in the Piedmont region of Italy. He worked under his father in Turin from 1947 to 1958 as a painting restorer.  In the 1950s he made figurative paintings, including many self-portraits.  Pistoletto first participated in the Biennale di San Marino in 1959.  His first solo exhibition was held the next year, at the Galleria Galatea, Turin. In his self-portraits of 1960-61, he covered his canvases with grounds of metallic paint, and subsequently replaced the canvas completely with polished steel.  His photosilkscreened images of people, life-size, on reflective steel were intended both to integrate the environment and the viewer into his work and to question the nature of reality and representation.  Mirrored surfaces would recur throughout Pistoletto's oeuvre.  The Oggetti in meno (Minus Objects) of 1965-66 are among his earliest sculptural works.

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   Michelangelo Pistoletto  Born:  1933 - Biella, Italy
Known for:  Life-size figure paintings, photoscreen images, conceptual

Michelangelo Pistoletto was born on June 23, 1933, in Biella, in the Piedmont region of Italy. He worked under his father in Turin from 1947 to 1958 as a painting restorer.  In the 1950s he made figurative paintings, including many self-portraits.  Pistoletto first participated in the Biennale di San Marino in 1959.  His first solo exhibition was held the next year, at the Galleria Galatea, Turin. In his self-portraits of 1960-61, he covered his canvases with grounds of metallic paint, and subsequently replaced the canvas completely with polished steel.  His photosilkscreened images of people, life-size, on reflective steel were intended both to integrate the environment and the viewer into his work and to question the n  ...  Displaying 750 of 4426 characters.

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