1999-2000
Acrylic on mirror

22 x 28 ¾ inches (57 x 73 cm.)

Signed, titled and dated ‘Pistoletto 1999/2000 ‘Frattali” (on the reverse)

Ex-collection:
Associazione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescara
Private Collection

This work is from Pistoletto’s series of “Frattali,” which Pistoletto created in 1962. The “Frattali” are mirror paintings that display the artist’s interest in conceptualism and figuration, each displaying a different shape, or color. The works reflect the viewers and their environment, creating an endless performance, which both remains the same, and is simultaneously ever-changing. This concept of “sameness” directly relates to fractals as both a natural phenomenon and a mathematical set.