MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO | Lavoro - Cofano

Simon Lee Gallery, London 
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013

London, Simon Lee Gallery, Michelangelo Pistoletto: Lavoro, September - October 2011

This work is in good condition overall. Under close inspection, there are minor superficial abrasions and surface scratches visible across the mirrored surface, most notably along the top edge. Within the silkscreen layer, there is a 2 inch horizontal area 1 ½ inches from the bottom edge along the center axis, a 2 inch horizontal area 24 inches from the bottom edge along the central axis and 1/8 diameter circular area to the right of it which have a distinct texture to the surrounding silkscreen. Under ultraviolet light inspection, there three aforementioned areas fluoresce darkly and have benefited from retouching. Unframed.
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"The mirror paintings could not live without an audience. They were created and re-created according to the movement and to the interventions they reproduced... It is less a matter of involving the audience, of letting it participate, as to act on its freedom and on its imagination, to trigger similar liberation mechanisms in people." Michelangelo Pistoletto