It is a fertile land for experimentation, innovation and change. That is our purpose (...). A cultural, artistic and scientific platform has been consolidated in Cuba, upon which we can generate and help to grow a kind of politics that will lead to renewal of the whole society”. (Michelangelo Pistoletto, May 2015, Havana, Cuba).
This exposition, therefore, not only illustrates the genesis of Pistoletto’s work and of the image as the phenomenal identification of space-time, but accompanies us to today, to the most recent works where, in addition to the image, Michelangelo Pistoletto continues to work with his imagination. Through it, the artist proposes to configure the scene that opens on the future, once again leaving open the “triple dynamic” flow that inevitably includes the past, the present and the future.
Michelangelo Pistoletto, The Masks – The Baroque, 1969, photograph, 5 elements: 55,5×46 cm each. Courtesy: Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana. Photo by: Oak Taylor-Smith