One Hundred Exhibitions in the Month of October |
From the “dilatation” of the event in the exhibition “The Rooms” (which had ended the previous month), Pistoletto moved on to the “concentration” of the work One Hundred Exhibitions in the Month of October [Cento mostre nel mese di ottobre]. This small yellow book, published by the Galleria Giorgio Persano, contained 100 ideas for the same number of shows, all conceived and described in the month of October in a process, in keeping with “contingent necessity,” similar to the one that had produced the Minus Objects. One Hundred Exhibitions was a sort of recipe book for shows and works, many of which would be put into effect over the following years. These included the video Who Are You? [Chi sei tu?] (1976), Overturned Furniture [Mobili capovolti] (1976), The Hoof [Lo zoccolo] (1979), Segno Arte (from 1993 onward) and Free Space [Spazio libero] (1999). In 2013 Michelangelo Pistoletto created fifteen new works that had been described in One Hundred Exhibitions in the Month of October, which he showed at two solo exhibitions held simultaneously at two of the branches of the Galleria Continua, the one in San Gimignano and the one in Boissy-le-Châtel. In 2018 he produced another work from this book, number 100, for a solo exhibition at the new premises of the Galleria Giorgio Persano: a large installation entitled Communication. The Doors of Cittadellarte [Comunicazione. Le porte di Cittadellarte]. |
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