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Kevin Hanley
On Another Occasion,
2002 (video still)
Single channel
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DELAYS AND REVOLUTIONS MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO
Padiglione Italia Leone d’oro for Lifetime Achievement
Curated by Francesco Bonami and Daniel Birnbaum

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Foto: Fondazione Pistoletto

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Leone d’oro for Lifetime Achievement
Born in Biella, north of Turin in 1933.
Born into the profession, he worked with his father on the restoration worked in the various fields of performance, theatre and architecture,
of paintings and studied graphic arts and advertising with Armando communications and creative involvement.
Testa. A former professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, in 1988
Since 1958, he has exhibited in the most important galleries and he founded the Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto multicultural
museums world-wide. His first one-man show was at the Galatea centre in Biella (its activity consisting of creative projects in the areas
gallery in Turin in 1960. In 1961, he produced his first mirrored canvases of innovation and transformation in the various sectors of production
which thrust him into the fore of international art. In the 1 960s, he and of the social fabric). UNIDEE - Universita delle Idee (‘The Ideas
took part in the most important exhibitions of New Realism and Pop University’) was set up within this foundation in 1999, comprising
Art. He is one of the leading exponents of the “Arte Povera” movement. an international research laboratory for a responsible social
He has participated in 8 Biennale in Venice and 4 Documenta in Kassel. transformation, in which art interacts with other disciplines (humanist,
His works may be seen in the collections of such museums as the scientific, political and economic).
MOMA in New York, the Beaubourg in Paris, the Galleria Nazionale In 2002, the Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto also gave birth to ‘Love
d’arte Moderna in Rome, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Difference’ - Movimento Artistico per una Politica Intermediterranea
the Contemporary Art Museum of Toyota, the Smithsonian Institute, (‘Artistic Movement for an Inter-Mediterranean Policy’), which is
the Hirshorn Museum in Washington, and so on. present at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
Besides being a theoretician in his own work, since 1967 he has

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