Pistoletto's Cittadellarte Doors Transform Galleria Persano
Michelangelo Pistoletto's exhibition "Comunicazione" at Galleria Giorgio Persano in Turin installs seventeen doors from his Cittadellarte foundation as spatial dividers, each representing a sector of society. The doors metaphorically connect and separate exhibition "rooms," illustrating contemporary human relations shaped by globalized communication and its paradox of incomunicability. A second part of the show at the ex-Opificio Pastiglie Leone features Pistoletto's Quadri Specchianti, which he describes as pre-computer devices capturing both present and memory, akin to selfies. The exhibition runs at two venues in Turin.
Key facts
- Michelangelo Pistoletto (born Biella, 1933) founded Cittadellarte in an ex-textile mill.
- The exhibition installs seventeen doors from Cittadellarte at Galleria Giorgio Persano.
- Each door represents a different sector of society.
- The second part of the exhibition is at ex-Opificio Pastiglie Leone in Turin.
- Quadri Specchianti are described as pre-computer devices and selfies.
- The show explores communication and incomunicability in the digital age.
- Pistoletto's work aims to find new balances between nature and artifice.
- The exhibition is titled 'Comunicazione'.
Entities
Artists
- Michelangelo Pistoletto
Institutions
- Galleria Giorgio Persano
- Fondazione Cittadellarte
- ex-Opificio Pastiglie Leone
- Artribune
Locations
- Biella
- Italy
- Turin
- via Principessa Clotilde