BIOGRAPHIE
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Né en 1933, vit et travaille à Biella, en Italie
Born in 1933, lives and works in Biella, Italy
Expositions personnelles (sélection) / Selected Personal Exhibitions
2009 Art Verona - Mediterraneans - Love Difference Chairs, Verona, Italy
2008 Ettore e Michelangelo, I coetanei, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
The Mediterraneans - Love Difference Chairs, International Furnishing Exhibition, Milan, Italy
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Galleria Continua - Beijing, Pekin, Japan
Binahayat, Le Moulin, Galerie Continua, Boissy-le-Chatel, France
Je est un autre, Espace Apollonia, Strasbourg, France
2007 Pistoletto e il Terzo Paradiso, CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia,
La Spezia, Italy Michelangelo Pistoletto, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
MAMAC, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Nice
Stravolti. Ritratti/Autoritratti, Galleria Martano,Torino, Italie
Amare-Salvagente, Fabio Tiboni Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, italie
2006 galerieofmarseille, Marseille
2004 Rétrospective, l’homme noir et les miroirs, Chapelle du Méjean, Arles
2003 Michelangelo Pistoletto & Cittadellarte, MuHKA, Anversa
2001 Michelangelo Pistoletto, Contemporary Museum of Bosnia, Sarajevo, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Continenti di tempo, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon
2000 Michelangelo Pistoletto, MACBA, Barcelona
1999 Michelangelo Pistoletto. Shifting Perspective, MMAO, Oxford, Henry Moore Foundation, Halifax
1997 Habitus, Abito, Abitare, Museo L.Pecci, Prato
1996 Memoria, Intelligentia, Praevidenti, Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich
1994 Pistoletto through the mirror, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
1993 Pistoletto e la fotografia, Witte de With Art Centrum, Rotterdam
Il segno arte, Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, Centre d’Art, Vassivière, Musée, Rochechouart
1992 Michelangelo Pistoletto..-Die Minus-Objekte. Spiegel. Gitter., Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1991 Oggetti in meno 1965-1966, Camden Arts Center, London
1990 Michelangelo Pistoletto. Oggetti in meno 1965-1966, Wiener Secession, Wien
1988 Michelangelo Pistoletto. Division and Multiplication of the Mirror, P.S.1 Museum, New York
1986 Le temps du miroir, Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
Michelangelo Pistoletto jalons anciens, oeuvres récentes, Musée Cantini, Marseille
1984 Sculptures, Centre d’art contemporain, Genève
1983 Retrospettiva, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid
1981 Spiegelbilder, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Museum Doberman, Alternbergen
1980 Rags, University Art Museum, Berkeley
1979 Creative Collaboration, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Furniture Environment, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens
1978 Nordiyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg
1976 retrospettiva, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia
1975 Art Agency, Tokyo
1974 Matildenhohe, Darmstadt
1973 Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
1969 Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
1967 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
1966 Oggetti in meno, studio di Pistoletto, Torino
Michelangelo Pistoletto: A Reflected World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1964 Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
1963 Galleria Galatea, Torino
1960 Galleria Galatea, Torino

Expositions collectives / Selected Collective Exhibitions
2009 La photographie n'est pas l'art, collection Sylvio Perlstein, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Porto : Museu Serralves, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France
GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Arte Fiera, Art First, Bologna, Italia
2009 XXV Biennale d’Alessandria per i paesi del Mediterraneo - Aftermath, Alexandria of Egypt
spazio tempo immagine, Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Italy
Essential Experiences, Palazzo Riso, museo d'arte contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
Sphères 2009, Le Moulin, Galleria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Design Festival, Lodz in Poland, Andels Hotel
La forma dei sogni (The shape of dreams), Milan
Art at the center 2009, Mediterraneans - Love Difference Chairs, Cittadellarte, Italy
Murmures, Marcel Dinahet, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Edouard Sautai, Abbaye de Bon-Repos, Saint-Gelven,
France
Volta5 - galerieofmarseille, Basel, Switzerland
Risonanze # 3, The Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
Din Don D’Arte Festival, Galbiate, Italy
Classici del Contemporaneo, Villa Pisani, Stra, Venezia, Italy
International Festival of Artistic Action Estrella Levante, Murcia, Spain
As_Tide networks, final event, European Parliament, Brussels
Nao te posso ver nem pintado, Berardo Museum, Lisboa, Portugal
¿Y ahora qué?, Festival Estrella Levante SOS 4.8, Mustang Art Space, Murcia, España
Hot Spots. Rio de Janeiro / Milano - Torino / Los Angeles, 1956-1969, Kunsthaus, Zürich, Swiss
Ingres et les modernes, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada
Costanti del classico nell’arte del XX e XXI secolo, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino - Palazzo Valle, Catania, Italy
Art and Illusion: Selections from the F. R. Weisman Art Foundation, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, USA
2008 Brussels Biennial 1, Brussels, Belgium
Mediation Biennale 08, Poznan, Poland
Yokohama Triennale 2008 - Time Crevasse, Tokyo, Japan
Dont acte(s) 1, galerieofmarseille, Marseille, France
Coleção de Arte Italiana Contemporânea Farnesina, MASP - Museo de Arte de São Paulo, Brasil
Mondo e Terra, La collezione del FRAC Corsica, MAN - Museo d`Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
Rebuilding with Art, Fondazione Pierluigi e Natalina Remotti, Camogli, Italy
1988: Vent' Anni Prima Vent' Anni Dopo, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Fiac, installations au Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
2007 Un Teatro sin teatro, MACBA, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Barcelone, espagne
Après la pluie, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italie
RAM- RadioArteMobile, Moscow Art Fair, Russie
2006 Italy made in art - Now, MOCA, Shanghai
Where are we going - Selections from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venise
Un été italien - Une histoire privée, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris
2005 Arte povera, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Le Tableau des Éléments, MAC’s Grand Hornu, Hornu
2004 A Angles vifs, capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux
2001 Arte Povera - From 0 to infinity, Tate Modern, London - Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
2000 Le temps, vite, Centre Pompidou Beaubourg, Paris
1999 Minimalia, P.S.1 Museum, New York
1998 Arte Italiana 1945-95 il visibile e l’invisibile, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taiwan
1997 Minimalia, Venice
1996 Face à l’Histoire, Beaubourg, Paris
1995 Ripple across the Water, Watari Museum, Tokyo
1994 NICAF, Yokohama

The Italian Metamorphosis 1943-1968Italiana. From Arte Povera to Transavanguardia,, Guggenheim
Museum, New York
1992 Arte Povera, Beaubourg, Paris
Reperti, Meseu National Bellas Arti, Rio de Janeiro
1989 Open Mind, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent
1988 Europa oggi - Europe now, Luigi Pecci Centro per l’Arte Contemp., Prato
1987 Collecion Sonnabend, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
1986 Eye Level, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1983 Aspects of Postwar Painting in Europe, Guggenheim Museum, New York
1982 Arte Italiana 1960-1982, Hayward Gallery, London
1981 Identité Italienne, Beaubourg, Paris
1977 Arte in Europe, Muzei Savremene Umetnosti, Belgrade
1975 Identitat, Trigon, Graz
1971 Arte Povera, Kunstverein, Munich
1970 Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969 When Attitudes become form, Kunsthalle, Bern
1968 Arte Povera + Azioni Povere, Arsenali, Amalfi
1967 Contemporary Italian Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
V Bienale d’Art Contemporain, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
1966 The object transformed, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964 Figuration et défiguration, la figure humaine depuis Picasso, Musée des Beaux Arts, Gent
New Realism and Pop Art, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, Museum der XXJahrunderts, Vienna
1961 III Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea, San Marino
1958 115 esposizione, Promotrice di Belle Arti, Torino
Venice Biennial: 1966, 1968, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1995, 2003, 2005, 2007
Documenta of Kassel: 1968, 1982, 1992, 1997.
Bibliographie (sélection) / Selected Bibliography
Boatto, Pistoletto Dentro / Fuori lo specchio, Edizione Fantini, Roma, 1969
Celant, Germano, Pistoletto, Rizzoli, New York, 1989
Cora, Bruno, Lo spazio della riflessione nell’arte, Edizioni Essegi, Ravenna,1986
Poetter, Jochen, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden 1988
Loock, Urich, Zacharopoulos, Denys, Oggetti in meno 1965-1966, Kunsthalle de Bern, Bern, 1989; Wiener Secession, Wien 1990
Celant, Germano, Pistoletto, Fabbri Editori, Milan 1990
Chevrier, Jean-François, Dercon, Chris, Molder, Jorge, Michelangelo Pistoletto e la fotografia, Fundaçao de Serralves, Porto; Witte de With, Rotterdam, 1993
Hegyi, Lóránd, Faber, Monika, Michelangelo Pistoletto Zeit-Raume, Museum Moderner Kunste Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, 1995
Friedel, Helmut, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Memoria - Intelligentia - Praevidentia, Lenbachhaus, Cantz Verlag, München, 1996
Cora, Bruno, Pistoletto - Le porte di Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Charta, Milano 1995
Cora, Bruno, Pistoletto, Michelangelo, Habitus, Abito, Abitare, Museo L. Pecci, Prato, Skira Editore, Milano 1996
Eiblmayr, Silvia, Pistoletto Azioni Materiali, Galerie Taxispalais, Innsbruch, 1999
Michelangelo Pistoletto, MACBA Barcellona, 2000
Michelangelo Pistoletto - Io sono l’altro, GAM Torino, 2000
Textes de l'artiste / Essays by the Artist
Pistoletto, Michelangelo, L’uomo nero, il lato insopportabile, Rumma Editore, Salerno, 1979
Pistoletto, Michelangelo, Un artista in meno, Hopeful Monster, Torino, 1988
Pistoletto, Michelangelo, Mots, Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, CNAC Thyers, CNAC Vassiviere, 1993
