{"product_id":"michelangelo-pistoletto-gemelle-triptych","title":"Michelangelo Pistoletto — Gemelle (Triptych)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichelangelo Pistoletto is one of the defining figures of Arte Povera and, for more than six decades, the artist who turned the mirror into a working instrument rather than a passive surface. His \u003cem\u003eQuadri specchianti\u003c\/em\u003e place the viewer inside the picture: the painted figure and the reflected room share a single plane, and the work is completed only while someone stands in front of it. It is a proposition that has kept his practice at the centre of international museum programming and of a market where the mirror paintings are the recognised core of the oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the triptych \u003cem\u003eGemelle\u003c\/em\u003e, Pistoletto presents his subject through a pair of identical profile images, each turned inward, their gaze fixed on a small point at the centre of an otherwise empty mirror. The composition reads as a single gesture divided across three panels: the two figures hold the periphery, while the void between them belongs to whoever is looking. The viewer concentrates on that point and, in doing so, adds a third portrait to the work through their own reflection — the participatory mechanism that Pistoletto has pursued since the early 1960s and that gives his mirror works their unusual psychological charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is an object that is simultaneously painting, sculpture and environment, and one whose meaning changes with the room it occupies. For a collection built around post-war Italian art, a multi-panel mirror work by Pistoletto offers the combination that matters most in this segment: historical standing, an unmistakable signature device, and a format — the triptych — that is materially rarer than the single-panel works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collecto Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58052978901332,"sku":"50","price":14850.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/9083\/7588\/files\/1701875737279.jpg?v=1793381570","url":"https:\/\/collectoarchive.com\/products\/michelangelo-pistoletto-gemelle-triptych","provider":"Collecto Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}