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Without title
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Venus of the rags
Without title
Beuys by Warhol
Without title
Vibrating texture
Invisible
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Ave Ovo
The sea does not wet Naples
Axis / Offset
Without title
The love
Scribbles
My cinema
Dilemma
Without title
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Venus of the rags

Michelangelo Pistoletto

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Madre Museum

Madre Museum

Via Settembrini (Palazzo Donnaregina) , 79, Naples

Open now from 10:00 to 19:30

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Pistoletto's path began in the mid-fifties; starting from the first mirror paintings of 1962, mirror-polished steel plates on which life-size tissue paper figures appear, and passing through the Plexiglass (1964) and the Minus Objects (1965-66), Pistoletto's works qualify for the incessant experimentation, beyond a defined technique or style, and at the same time, for the progressive integration of the spectator and the space-time of reality in the work, first through the reflecting surfaces of the mirror paintings, then in the real confrontation with the fewer Objects, precisely objects - and not sculptures - that “do not represent but are” - says the artist, announcing a turning point in a theatrical key, of active and direct involvement, in his research. In Venere degli stracci, from 1967, the assembly technique, the apparently provocative combination, brings together the classic reference to the poor material par excellence, the rag, initially used to clean mirror paintings, and now used in its material and chromatic component . The colored shreds of cloth are arranged to form a gap between the reproduction of Venus with an apple by the neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and the wall towards which the sculpture, lost both authoritative frontality and prestige of workmanship (it is an industrial and serial cast), seems address, suggesting an unprecedented capacity for recycling and regeneration, between order and chaos, classicism and modernity.
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Title: Venus of the rags

Author: Michelangelo Pistoletto

Date: 1967

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Displayed in: Madre Museum

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