Announced
in January 1989 on the invitation of a solo show in Perugia, White
Year is a ‘time continent’ conceived “as a
mirror painting ready to receive tomorrow’s images” or
“white newspaper pages” open to outside events. It is
in this sense that the large white sheets of plaster and marble shown
in various places during the year should be understood. The visual
correspondence between the images made famous by the media of the
two most significant events of that year—people celebrating
on the Berlin Wall and the statue erected during the Tiananmen Square
revolt in Beijing—with two works by Pistoletto—the theater
piece Year One (1981) and the sculpture About Face
(1981)—form a motif that was presented on several later occasions,
beginning with Pistoletto’s retrospective at the Galleria d’Arte
Moderna in Rome in 1990. For a reconstruction of the entire operation
see the publication, Michelangelo Pistoletto - Anno Bianco,
edited by Bruno Corà and published by AEIOU (Rome, 1990). |
