EVEN IF THIS CAN’T BE WITNESSED Max L. Feldman on Michelangelo Pistoletto at Castello di Rivoli, Turin
One might, admittedly, be tempted to dismiss Michelangelo Pistoletto as an eccentric or as a precursor of the new age industrial complex that took shape in the 1970s. But this proves to be too reductive, as Max L. Feldman lays out in his review of the artist’s recent retrospective “Molti di uno” (Many of one). Reading the exhibited works against the background of both Pistoletto’s own esoteric manifestos and writings by Gilles Deleuze, they become explicable in terms of metaphysics and higher mathematics.
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