Without Lifting A Finger

Cool symbol, Pistoletto, but it seems a bit too gimmicky to me. Sorry I missed re-birth day (Dec. 21, 2012). Was it anything like an un-birth day?     [Image from http://www.art-agenda.com/shows/the-third-paradise-presented-by-cittadellarte-%E2%80%93-fondazione-pistoletto/ ]

Le Paradis de Michelangelo Pistoletto au Louvre , a photo by dalbera on Flickr. I guess I missed the sign of the "third paradise" on the pyramid. Oh, well . . .

Pistoletto, Michelangelo (1933- ) in 2009 by Andrea Merola , a photo by RasMarley on Flickr. Here's the man behind the mirrors himself (probably thinking about Arte Povera or Gesamtkunstwerk).

Pistoletto , a photo by Benoit photography on Flickr. Much better than my "fragmented" photos. Get a good view of the whole here. Nice.

Not knowing him (and yet "tickled" by some of what I saw), I "sampled" some of his work in the Louvre.                                                           

Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 25 June 1933) is an Italian painter , action and object artist, and art theorist . Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera . His work mainly deals with the subject matter of reflection and the unification of art and everyday life in terms of a Gesamtkunstwerk . Biography [ edit ] Pistoletto was born at Biella . From 1947 until 1958, Pistoletto worked in his father’s restoration workshop in Turin . In the 1950s, he started painting figurative works and self-portraits . In 1959, he participated in the Biennale di San Marino . In the following year, he had his first solo exhibition in the Galleria Galatea in Turin. In the beginning of the 1960s, Pistoletto started painting figurative works and self-portraits which he painted on a monochrome, metallic background. Later on, he combined painting with photography using collage techniques on reflective backgrounds. Eventually, he switched over to print...