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Artwork Description

In Michelangelo Pistoletto’s work, mirrors constitute an image of the world, both of humans and society, and of cosmic space. “It seems clear to me that the space in which this reflection takes place is neither limited not exclusively individual, but is the cosmic space of totality and therefore of everyone.” Breaking the mirrors is equivalent for the artist to halting the prolongation of space and time, that is, of reality. Equally, through this act he disturbs the path of light: it no longer reflects unbrokenly, because it is deviated by the cracks and the black holes. In this series the artist introduces a new element, which is the jute. The jute reconnects Pistoletto’s use of mirrors with the beginning of his career when he started as a painter using a simple jute canvas. This last works of art are the perfect balance between past and present, between the early production and the experience that the artist gained through the decades of his artistic career.