Michelangelo Pistoletto

This volume opens with two 1960 self-portraits, before arriving at the artist’s most recent interventions which, under the title of Proggeto Arte, invite us to think about contemporary art. It spins a connecting thread that extends from the image of the artist and his initial pictorial representation to showing us the figure of the artist as the driving force of a different way of thinking and living the world of today. During the 60s and 70s Pistoletto established himself as one of the most important artists in Italian arte povera, although his evolution towards other, more theoretical, preoccupations have clearly distanced him from this movement.