Michelangelo Pistoletto in Spain

The Galería Elvira González (Madrid, Spain) hosts, for the first time, an individual exhibition devoted to Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. The show features a selection of 8 large works belonging to the Mirror Paintings series. These pieces, made of polished stainless steel, reflect the exhibition space, interact with it and allow the visitor to recreate his own reflection. 

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 foundation of his subsequent artistic output and theoretical thought.

In 2007, in Jerusalem, he received the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, "for his constantly inventive career as an artist, educator and activist whose restless intelligence has created prescient forms of art that contribute to fresh understanding of the world."

Location: Galería Elvira González. General Castaños, 3. 28004. Madrid. Spain.
Opening hours: from Monday to Friday from 10.30am to 7.30pm.