I tre occhi (The Three Eyes)

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Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933)
I tre occhi (The Three Eyes)
signed, titled twice, inscribed and dated ‘I TRE OCCHI – opera riprodotta nel manifesto per la mostra a Palazzo Grassi Venezia 1976 Pistoletto estate 1976 – i tre occhi –‘ (on the reverse)
two transparencies mounted on board in lightbox
15 7/8 x 12 x 4 1/8in. (40.5 x 30.5 x 10.5cm.)
Executed in 1976

The source image of the present work was photographed by Paolo Mussat Sartor

Provenance

Katia Arte Contemporanea, Genoa.
Galleria De Ambrogi, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

T. Trini, "Michelangelo Pistoletto", in Data - Dati internazionali d'arte, n. 22, July-August-September 1976 (illustrated, p. 91)

Exhibited

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Pistoletto, 1976 (illustrated in colour on the cover).
Turin, Palazzo Bricherasio, VIII Biennale di Fotografia "L'occidente imperfetto", 1999.
Milan, Galleria Pack, Arte Italiana 1970-1980, 2002.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘Man has always attempted to double himself as a means of attaining self-knowledge. The recognition of one’s own image in a pool of water - like recognizing oneself in a mirror - was perhaps one of the first real hallucinations that man experienced. Part of man’s mind has always remained attached to that reproduction of himself. With the passage of time, this doubling, this process of duplication, came to be used in ways that were ever more systematic and convincing. The mind created representation on the basis of the reflection of the self; and art has become one form of this representation’ (M. Pistoletto, Le ultime parole famose, Turin 1967).

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