Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1933, in Biella (Piedmont).
Painter, sculptor, installation artist, photographer, writer.
Arte Povera.
The son of an art restorer, Michelangelo Pistoletto lives and works in Turin, and also teaches at the academy of fine arts in Vienna.Pistoletto's early works, painted during the 1950s, consisted of self-portraits against a monochrome background that revealed an interest in the work of Francis Bacon. He made his name from ...