Flashbacks and Eclipses in Italian Art in the 1960s

摘要

In 1962 Michelangelo Pistoletto, a young Turinese artist later identified with arte povera, began cutting life-size silhouettes of friends and mundane objects out of thin, translucent paper and placing these on the reflective surface of highly polished stainless steel. The "mirror paintings" (quadri specchianti) confounded pictorial and viewing space and made the act of looking an active phenomenolog-ical experience.