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PISTOLETTO IN HAVANA

Until the month of March can be seen in the Universal Art Building of the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) of Havana, an unconventional exhibition that invites us to reflect on art and its usefulness: that is one of the keys which characterizes the work of Michelagelo Pistoletto, an artist and theorist of Italian art.
According to Jorge Fernández, director of the MNBA, more than a show is "a conversation between the vitality of many of his historical works and the collections that are exhibited in this space". The curatorship between Lorenzo Fiaschi and Laura Salas had the balance of inserting, through almost all the rooms of the Museum, the work of Pistoletto.
The selection of pieces exhibits a vast look at the artist's work, from his emblematic works made in the distant decade of the sixties to those designed and conceived for and in this Island in the present 2016. Installations, photographs and sculptures shape this proposal that has traveled through various points of planetary geography and has been applauded or criticized, but never indifferent or inadvertent.
Michelagelo Pistoletto (Biella, Piedmont, 1933), according to the specialist Niurka Fanego, is a "manifesto editor in the XXI century; supports respect for difference, advocates interdisciplinary practices and restores man as the center of social process, while triggering a desire for change from the policies of art. "
Its theoretical-conceptual system called Third Paradise establishes the relations between the natural world and the artificial world and the one that will come, that is to say, the future, from three interconnected circles that touch or overlap in a certain area. Which are in permanent contagion. The central circle - where the Third Paradise is generated - is where the new equilibrium springs up, the germ of the new society.
His new series of paintings-mirrors was inspired by Cuba from his participation in the XII Biennial. There are eighteen works in which daily life on the island is represented using photography as a medium.