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
2007 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

2008  Echo, GALERIE SFEIR-SEMLER Beirut
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.


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