Michelangelo Pistoletto is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Michelangelo Pistoletto as Italian artist, painter and sculptor (born 1933).
Michelangelo Pistoletto was born at Biella in 1933. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
He worked as artist, painter and sculptor.
His recorded movement is arte povera.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
Recognition followed: Praemium Imperiale (2013), Wolf Prize in Arts, Order of Minerva (2019) and Silver Medal of the Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art (2002).
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Achievements
- Praemium Imperiale — 2013
- Wolf Prize in Arts
- Order of Minerva — 2019
- Silver Medal of the Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art — 2002
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic — 2012
- Movement: Arte Povera
