Michelangelo Pistoletto

born 1933 in Biella / Piomonte, Italy
lives and works in Torino, Italy

"When a man realizes that he has two lives, an abstract one for his mind and a concrete one which is also for his mind, he ends up either like a madman, who, out of fear, hides one of his lives and plays the other as a role, or like the artist, who has no fear and who is willing to risk the both of them. [...]"

Michelangelo Pistoletto quoted from Pistoletto, Division and Multiplication of the Mirror, The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, New York 1988, p. 72.

Sample Work
 

untitled (Pozzi), 1991 5 pieces sculpture Wood, mirror each app. 100 cm Installation view, Artfair Basel 1997 < Click on Image for larger view