{"id":945,"date":"2017-05-01T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/?p=945"},"modified":"2022-11-04T20:16:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:16:47","slug":"mai-2017-specularity-media-art-as-generative-tool-pistoletto-in-havana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/mai-2017-specularity-media-art-as-generative-tool-pistoletto-in-havana\/","title":{"rendered":"Mai 2017 – Specularity, Media Art as Generative Tool: Pistoletto in Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Michelangelo Pistoletto\u2019s\u00a0solo exhibition\u00a0held at the\u00a0Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana\u00a0between November 2016 and March 2017, was a celebration of his political, social, and artistic involvement in the Cuban capital, as well as his spatio-temporal aesthetic experimentations with mirroring. The exhibit that closed on March 13 was an ode to Pistoletto\u2019s lifetime\u00a0oeuvre<\/em>. Two floors of the Arte Universal pavilion were populated by his art. The first, which welcomes visitors, was dedicated to his solo exhibition, and highlighted his Havana-based new work; while on the second floor past works fused and intermingled with the Bellas Arte\u2019s permanent collection, a signature-exhibiting scheme of this prominent figure of the\u00a0Arte Povera<\/em>\u00a0movement, who likes to put his art in dialogue with museums\u2019 collections and spaces. The wide range of selections included his experimentations of the 1960s and 1970s with objects, materials, and photography: from\u00a0Oggetti in Meno<\/em>\u00a0(Minus Objects<\/em>, 1965-1966), to his photographic series\u00a0La Conferenza<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Raggi di persone<\/em>\u00a0(The conference\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0People\u2019s rays<\/em>, 1975). On the way to the museum\u2019s Ancient Art section stood the more emblematic Arte Povera-inspired\u00a0Venere degli stracci<\/em>(Venus of the Rags<\/em>, 1967-1974), a marmoreal white neo-classical status of Venus looking down at an immense pile of colorful rags, that dwarfs her monumentality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n