Pistoletto's major exhibition on an unprecedented city of Art at Rivoli Castle

From November 2, 2023 to February 2024, the large-scale exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto will be staged in the spaces of the Manica Lunga of the Rivoli Castle. Many of One, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marcella Beccaria and realized in close contact with the artist.

The exhibition focuses on Many of One, a major new work that stands as a device through which to reread Pistoletto’s art.

Among the artists who have redefined the concept of art since the mid-1960s, Pistoletto since the first half of the 1950s has been questioning the concept of personal identity and embarked on the path of the self-portrait as an emblematic expression of his thinking. In 1961 he painted the first mirror painting The Present, in which his own self-portrait stands out against a black background obtained with highly polished acrylic paint that makes it reflective. A work that determines a new space-time dimension.

Designed for the Long Channel, Many of One is an Art City structured as a walkable architecture and composed of 31 offices or rooms. Designed as open and interconnected spaces, the offices include art, industry, fashion, communication, science, history, ecology, politics, economics, philosophy, sports, play, nature, spirituality, architecture, urbanism, technology, multiverse, space, psychoanalysis, nurture, agriculture, transportation, Internet, medicine, education, religion, labor, burial, war, law. Presenting the main activities of the City of Art, in the artist’s words, the installation “makes visible the real structure of society.” The 31 offices are communicating with each other and interconnected through a series of doors, and each of them bears the indication of the specific activity on the lintel. Extending another chapter of Pistoletto’s research, the doors take up the Art Sign.

The exhibition is realized with the support of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.

Pistoletto's major exhibition on an unprecedented city of Art at Rivoli Castle

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