Double Ladder Leaning Against the Wall, 1964
photograph on transparent plexiglass, two elements, cm 180 x 120 and 150 x 120
Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
Photo: P. Bressano
photograph on transparent plexiglass, two elements, cm 180 x 120 and 150 x 120
Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
Photo: P. Bressano
“I find myself inside the picture, beyond the wall that is perforated (though not, of course, in a material sense) by the mirror. On the contrary, since I cannot enter it physically, if I am to inquire into the structure of art I must make the picture move outward into reality, creating the ‘fiction’ of being myself beyond the mirror. At the present time it is easy to play on the identity between reality-object and art-object. A ‘thing’ is not art; but the idea expressed by that same ‘thing’ may be” (Michelangelo Pistoletto, I plexiglass, Galleria Sperone, Turin 1964).