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Michelangelo Pistoletto

(Italian, born 1933)

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Attraverso il segno Arte - Porta bianca - Michelangelo Pistoletto con Gianna Nannini, 2007

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Biography

Timeline

1933: Born: Biella, Italy
1960: First solo show at Galleria Galatea in Turin, Italy
1961 - 1962: Made the first Mirror Paintings
1965 - 1966: Produced a set of works entitled Minus Objects, considered fundamental to the birth of Arte Povera
1967: Began to work outside traditional exhibition spaces
1978: Defined two main directions his future artwork would take: Division and Multiplication of the Mirror and Art Takes On Religion
2003: Won the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifelong Achievement
2007: Received the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, Jerusalem
: Lives and works in Torino, Italy

Exhibitions

2011: Ileana Sonnabend: An Italian Portrait, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, Italy
: Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956-1974, curated by Carlos Basualdo, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto, The Mirror of Judgement, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Cittadellarte, MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Lavoro, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Il giardino segreto, ex-Monastero di Santa Scolastica, Bari, Italy
: Campagni di viaggio, Mestna Galeerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
: Artist’s box: il luogo dell’anima, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Open Space, Catanzaro, Italy
: Haas, Nunzio, Pistoletto, Pommeureulle, Reimondo, Tirelli, Zorio, Galerie Di Meo, Paris, France
: The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
: Achtung! Achtung!, Spazio ex-GIL, Rome,Italy
: Regioni e testimonianze d’Italia. Percorso dell’Arte in Italia attraverso le sue regioni, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome,Italy
: La classe non e acqua. Maestri contemporanei VS giovani d’oggi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
: Donne d’Italia: La meta dell’unita, Palazzo Blu, Pisa, Italy
: Collezione Christian Stein: Una storia dell’arte italiana, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Italy
: Contemporaneamente5, Galleria Brera, Corbetta, Italy
: Passagi: Dalla collezione private di Ernesto Esposito, Belvedere di San Leuco, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Caserta, Italy
: Mappa Mundi, Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
: 16 artisti per TVS, Bologna Fiere, Italy
: Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art, Frost Art Museum, Miami, US
: Heroes, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
: Alta Roma Valentino, Palazzo Mignanell - Maison Valentino, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto: Grande Cubo specchiante. Luogo di riflessione e meditazione, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto-Buco Nero, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (solo)
: Suoni dello Spazio Architettonico, Arsenale, Venice ,Italy (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto: Il DNA del Terzo Paradiso, MARCA, Parco Archeologico di Scolacium, Catanzaro, Italy (solo)
: Luogo multiconfessionale e laico, MACRO Future, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto – Love Difference: Arte e calcio per la pace nel mondo, Stadio Olimpico, Rome (solo)
: Diego Paccagnella – Michelangelo Pistoletto: Calcetto Love Difference, Appartemento Lago, Milan, Italy (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto: Mirror Paintings, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Pistoletto: My Art in My Art, Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto: Stracci d’Italia,Castello di Salemi, Salemi, Italy (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956-1974, Philadelphia Museum of Art together with the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI) in Rome, Philadelphia. (solo)
2010: Michelangelo Pistoletto-Buco Nero, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (solo)
2009: Stutter, Tate Modern, London, UK
: Weltanschauung Visione Del Mondo, Art Forum Würth Capena, Capena
: Incontri d'Aria, Galleria Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome
: Hommage a Picasso,Villa Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo
: The Irreverent Object - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
53nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
: Rebuilding With Art, Fondazione Pierluigi e Natalina Remotti, Camogli (solo)
: 1988: VENT‟ANNI PRIMA VENT‟ANNI DOPO, Centro per l‟Art Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (solo)
: Viaggio in Italia – Italienische Kunst 1960-1990, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto: Il Tempo del Giudizio, Galleriacontinua, San Gimignano, Italy (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Galleria Continua, Beijing (solo)
: Selections from the collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (solo)
Not So Subtle Subtitle - Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
Italics. Arte Italiana fra Tradizione e Rivoluzione, 1968-2008 - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice (solo)
2008: Ettore e Michelangelo, I Coetanei, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy (solo)
2007: Michelangelo Pistoletto, MAMAC-Musée d'Art Moderne et Art Contemporain, NIce, France (solo)
: Suono e forma. Il Terzo paradiso, (with Gianna Nannini), BunKerart, Milan, Italy (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto-Amare-Salvagente, Cat., textes : B. Cora, Fabio Tiboni Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy (solo)
: Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Musse d‟Art Moderne et Contemporain de Nice, Nice, France (solo)
: AMARE, Galleria Fabjbasaglia, Rimini, Italy (solo)
: Pistoletto. La giuria, Christian Stein, Milano, Italy (solo)
: Galerie of Marseille, Marseille, France (solo)
: Michelangelo Pistoletto. Multipli su acciaio e disegni, Gian Piero Menziani Arte Contemporanea, Galliata, Italy (solo)
2006: Ferrari Presentation, Ferrari HQ, Maranello, Italy. Cat. Pistoletto textes : M. Pistoletto, L. Cordero di Montezemolo, J.Todt, M. Schumacher, N.Setari ed. Artestampa, Modena, Italy (solo)
2005: Michelangelo Pistoletto. Lo specchio parlante, RAM-Radioartemobile, Roma, Italy (solo)
2004: Reflection Part 1: Michelangelo Pistoletto/Franz West, Sutton Lane, London, UK
2003: Michelangelo Pistoletto. Superfici Specchianti 1962-2000, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy (solo)
2001: Pistoletto, Galleria Marchetti, Roma, Italy (solo)
2000: Michelangelo Pistoletto, MACBA- Museu d'art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, (solo)
1999: Michelangelo Pistoletto. Shifting Perspective, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, (solo)
1998: Michelangelo Pistoletto. Segno Arte Unlimited, Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles, Belgium (solo)
1996: Michelangelo Pistoletto. C‘è Dio? Sì ci sono, Trinitatiskirche, Koln, Germany (solo)

Public Collections

: Berardo Museum – Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
: K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein –Westfalen – im Standehause, Dusseldorf, Germany
: Stadtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
: Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
: Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
: Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
: MUSEION – Museum fur Moderne und Zeitgenossische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
: Terrae Motus, Caserta, Italy
: FRAC – Rhone-Alpes, IAC – Institute d‟Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
: Museum d‟Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
: Sammlung Essl – Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria
: MuHKA Museum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
: SMAK Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
: National Gallery/Narodni Galerie – Veletrzni Palac, Prague, Czech Republic
: Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
: FRAC – Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
: Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
: MAC Musee d‟Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
: Les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Valduz, Lichtenstein
: Museu d‟Art Contemporani de Barcelona – MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Soffia MNCARS, Madrid, Spain
: Tate Britain, London, UK
: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, US
: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, US
: Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, US
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, US
: Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
: MACCSI Museo Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
: Zerynthia, Rome, Italy
: MART – Museum d‟Art Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
: Trevi Flash Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Trevi, Italy
: Museo d‟Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
: Galleria Civica d‟Arte Moderna e Contemporanea –GAM, Turin, Italy
: Ca‟la Ghironda – Museo d‟Arte Classica, Moderna e Contemporarea, Zola Predosa, Italy
: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan
: Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
: Gallerieofmarseille, Marseille, France

Literature

2000: Nike Bätzner: Arte povera. Zwischen Erinnerung und Ereignis: Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis. Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2000
1996: H. Friedel, M. Pistoletto, Memoria-Intelligentia-Previdenzia, Lenbachhaus Cantz Verlag, Munchen 1996

Michelangelo Pistoletto

(Italian, born 1933)

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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