Michelangelo Pistoletto *

(born in Biella in 1933)
Mir-Noir 2, 1987, signed and dated, charcoal and mirror on paper laid down on canvas, 175 x 218.5 cm
We are grateful to Archivio Pistoletto, Biella for the kind assistance with the cataloguing of this work

Provenance:
Galerie de France, Paris (label on the reverse)
Xin Dong Cheng Gallery, Beijing
European Corporate Collection (acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2006)

Exhibited:
Grenoble, Le temps du miroir, Centre National d’Art Contemporain/Magasin, 8 November 1986-11 January 1987

Note:
In 1986-87 Pistoletto created a group of 9 works, titled Mir-Noir, by dividing a mirror in 9 parts and applying each fragment to a rectangular paper surface, entirely covered with black marks traced in charcoal and applide to canvas. The surfaces covered with black marks used for Mir-Noir were made by Pistoletto, during his exhibition “Le Temps du Miroir” at the Magazine in Grenoble in the same year, during which Pistoletto had covered, over the course of almost two months, all the walls of the building, a total area of 680 square meters, with strips of paper on which he had traced black marks in charcoal.