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Lot Essay
“Il quadro specchiante è un’opera fenomenologica e come tale non raccoglie le istanze mie personali, non è informata dai miei sentimenti, dalle mie emozioni o ragioni, ma ci informa essa stessa sui fenomeni del mondo, del loro accadere e dei loro processi. Nel mio lavoro la fenomenologia consiste nel porre assieme componenti che vengono considerate normalmente opposte: staticità e dinamica, unicità e molteplicità, passato e futuro, presente e assenza. La fotografia è sempre passato in quanto memoria di un momento già vissuto, mentre l’immagine specchiata è il presente: non esisteva prima e non esisterà dopo. Nel quadro specchiante passato e presente si congiungono e insieme accolgono il futuro e procedono in esso”.
“The mirror painting is a phenomenological work, and as such does not recount my personal condition, it is not motivated by my feelings, emotions or reasoning, rather, it informs us of worldly phenomena, their happening and process. In my work, phenomenology consists in combining concepts that are normally considered as opposites: static and dynamic, uniqueness and multiplicity, past and future, present and absence. While photography remains an element of the past in that it exists as the memory of a moment that has already been lived, the mirror image is the present: it did not exist before and will not exist later. In a mirror picture, past and present join and together welcome the future, and proceed into it “.
-MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO
“The mirror painting is a phenomenological work, and as such does not recount my personal condition, it is not motivated by my feelings, emotions or reasoning, rather, it informs us of worldly phenomena, their happening and process. In my work, phenomenology consists in combining concepts that are normally considered as opposites: static and dynamic, uniqueness and multiplicity, past and future, present and absence. While photography remains an element of the past in that it exists as the memory of a moment that has already been lived, the mirror image is the present: it did not exist before and will not exist later. In a mirror picture, past and present join and together welcome the future, and proceed into it “.
-MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO