In June
1985, at Galleria Persano in Turin, Pistoletto showed a group of works—made
up of surfaces and volumes in an anonymous material and dark, somber
colors—to which the artist referred, in the catalogue essay,
as the ‘art of squalor’. This is a cycle of works, made
between 1985 and 1989, that utilizes large blocks of the same polyurethane
used in the sculptures, covered with canvas and painted. In the exhibition
Image, held in Rome at Galleria Pieroni in 1989, Pistoletto
presented photographic reproductions on large wood panels of some
of the pieces shown in different places in the preceding years, calling
attention, via the two-dimensionality of photography, to the mingling
of painting and sculpture that characterizes this group of works. |
