Michelangelo Pistoletto: The Minus Objects 1965-1966, 18 Dec 2013 — 11 May 2014
Exhibitions

Michelangelo Pistoletto: The Minus Objects 1965-1966

Luhring Augustine Bushwick, 25 Knickerbocker Ave, Brooklyn

Luhring Augustine presents The Minus Objects 1965-1966, an exhibition of one of the earliest bodies of work created by Michelangelo Pistoletto.

Widely regarded as fundamental to the birth of the Arte Povera movement in the 1960s, this seminal series radically upended the prevailing art trends of the time. Pistoletto is best known for his Quadri specchianti (Mirror Paintings), which were first conceived of in 1962 and represent a crucial and ongoing facet of the artist’s oeuvre. By affixing an image onto a reflective surface, the artist enables a dynamic and ever-changing interaction between the art object and the viewer. The Mirror Paintings garnered international acclaim early on, but Pistoletto was reluctant to yield to expectations that he continue solely in this vein. He opted to create instead the Oggetti in Meno (Minus Objects), a series of works which defied both categorization and commodification. Exhibited for the first time in 1966, in the artist’s studio in Turin, the Minus Objects comprise a group of disparate sculptural objects, striking for their individuality as well as their sheer diversity of form, media and means of production. Each work evolved in a spontaneous and organic manner and came together as a larger ensemble after their making.

The remarkable singularity and self-containment of each Minus Object serve to minimize the role of authorship. By creating an ensemble of objects with no discernible relation to each other, the artist essentially negates his own persona and enables the series as a whole to speak for itself. As Pistoletto writes, “…they are objects through whose agency I free myself from something—not constructions, then, but liberations. I do not consider them more but less, not pluses but minuses, in that they bring with them a sense of a perceptual experience that has been definitively manifested once and for all.”

Contacts & Details
OPENING:
tue, wed, thu, fri, sat 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

CLOSING DAYS:
mon, sun

T: +1 718 386 2746
M: leah@luhringaugustine.com
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ADDRESS
Luhring Augustine Bushwick, 25 Knickerbocker Ave, Brooklyn

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