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...
