Michelangelo Pistoletto: The Third Paradise

Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian artist and art theorist. Acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian ‘Arte Povera,’ his work deals with the subject matter of reflection and the unification of art and everyday life in terms of a universal artwork. In the mid-1960s the art dealer Ileana Sonnabend introduced him to Europe and the U.S. His work was awarded a grand prize at the Biennale de São Paulo (Brazil) in 1967. He won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Biennale in 2005. His works are exhibited permanently in several museums: MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, Paris’s Beaubourg, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Tate Modern in London, and others.