Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italian, born 1933). Standing Man, Standing Woman with Hat, 1980. Silkscreen on stainless steel, each panel: 90 5/8 x 49 1/4 in. (230.2 x 125.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Miriam Katowitz and Arthur Radin, 1995.198a-b. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.1995.198a.jpg)
Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italian, born 1933). Standing Man, Standing Woman with Hat, 1980. Silkscreen on stainless steel, each panel: 90 5/8 x 49 1/4 in. (230.2 x 125.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Miriam Katowitz and Arthur Radin, 1995.198a-b. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.1995.198b.jpg)
Standing Man, Standing Woman with Hat
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Contemporary Art
There is something magical about a reflection in a mirror. It seems to be an accurate record of what it represents, but it is reversed left to right and is subject to manipulation and distortion. Michelangelo Pistoletto plays with the idea of reflection and the merging of art and everyday life in this work.
Figures are silkscreened on a piece of reflective stainless steel, creating permanent content for the piece. But as viewers pass in front of it, temporary inhabitants of the space—you—also appear and disappear.
Figures are silkscreened on a piece of reflective stainless steel, creating permanent content for the piece. But as viewers pass in front of it, temporary inhabitants of the space—you—also appear and disappear.
MEDIUM
Silkscreen on stainless steel
DATES
1980
DIMENSIONS
each panel: 90 5/8 x 49 1/4 in. (230.2 x 125.1 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
1995.198a-b
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Miriam Katowitz and Arthur Radin
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Two rectangular sheets of highly polished stainless steel screened with photographic silk screen images.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italian, born 1933). Standing Man, Standing Woman with Hat, 1980. Silkscreen on stainless steel, each panel: 90 5/8 x 49 1/4 in. (230.2 x 125.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Miriam Katowitz and Arthur Radin, 1995.198a-b. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.1995.198a.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.1995.198a.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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RIGHTS STATEMENT
© Michelangelo Pistoletto -- Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
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