Preventive Peace Flags

Michelangelo Pistoletto

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About this work

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Edition details

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Packaging

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#Circaeconomy

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Michelangelo Pistoletto

Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933, Biella, Italy) is one of the most influential artists of the postwar period and a leading figure of Arte Povera. Beginning his career with self-portraiture in the 1950s, he achieved international recognition in the early 1960s with his Mirror Paintings, works that dissolve the boundary between artwork and viewer, placing the present moment at the centre of the image.

In the mid-1960s, Pistoletto produced Oggetti in meno (Minus Objects), a radical body of work that helped define Arte Povera and expanded the language of contemporary art beyond traditional forms. From the late 1960s onwards, his practice moved increasingly into performance, collaboration, and social engagement, anticipating decades of interdisciplinary and participatory art.

Throughout his career, Pistoletto has consistently positioned art as a catalyst for societal transformation. In the 1990s, he founded Cittadellarte in Biella, an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to connecting artistic practice with politics, economics, education, and ecology. This vision is encapsulated in The Third Paradise, a long-term, global project initiated in 2003, symbolised by a reconfigured infinity sign representing the balance between nature and artificiality.

Pistoletto’s work spans painting, sculpture, installation, and social practice, underpinned by a sustained philosophical inquiry into responsibility, collective authorship, and the role of creativity in public life. His writings, including The Third Paradise (2010), The Formula of Creation (2022), and more recent publications on spirituality and social regeneration, extend these ideas beyond the exhibition space.

He has exhibited internationally since 1955, participated in the Venice Biennale on thirteen occasions, and was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2003, as well as the Wolf Foundation Prize in Arts in 2007. His works are held in major museum collections worldwide.

Preventive Peace Flags

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