Michelangelo Pistoletto

Mostra personale a cura di Robilant+Voena, in collaborazione con Galleria Continua.

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Robilant+Voena, in collaboration with Galleria Continua, is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Michelangelo Pistoletto, for the gallery’s winter exhibition in St. Moritz. This is the first solo exhibition by the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated artist in St. Moritz, with works being produced specially for the ambient space of the Protestant Church in the centre of the Swiss alpine town.

The exhibition will feature five large mirror works from the series Color and Light, one from Black and Light, and one small silkscreen print on steel. The latter depicts a hand with outstretched index finger, reminiscent of the Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel; its position near the altar of the church enhances the meditative and devotional essence of the space.

Robilant+Voena’s exhibition presents six large mirror works by Pistoletto, composed of interlocking sections of black and white mirror and colourful jute, encapsulating the playful abstraction that embodies his current practice. Through the multiple reflective surfaces, the viewer and the church become integral to a perpetually changing exhibition experience, often shifting perspectives as the space and its visitors are continuously reflected.

In contrast to these large, brightly coloured mirror works, the petite conTatto is presented like an altarpiece, inviting an intimate experience of looking and meditation. First exhibited in 2017, in One and one makes three, a solo show at the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, the work Pistoletto reinterprets the Michelangelo Buonarotti’s Renaissance masterpiece the Creation of Adam. By positioning two sections of a single mirror at an angle to each other, the reflective potential of the original mirror is increased.

Here the real hand is reflected in the adjacent mirror, revealing its virtual, reflected counterpart. Unlike the in Sistine Chapel, this is not the hand of God giving life to Man, but the hand of Man creating the virtual hand of God.

This exhibition forms part of Robilant+Voena’s long-standing engagement with St. Moritz and contributes to the town’s vibrant winter cultural programme. Previous exhibitions held by the gallery in the town include: Jordan Watson and Vincenzo de Cotiis (2025); Minjung Kim (2024); 20th-Century Masterworks from Private Collections (2024); Harumi Klossowska de Rola (2023); Fontana and the Gothic (2022); Damien Hirst, Mental Escapology, the first exhibition of the artist’s work in Switzerland (2021); Les Lalanne (2020); Sean Scully. Aeternum (2020); Calder, Fontana, Morandi (2019); Alighiero Boetti (2018); and Lucio Fontana (2015–16).

Michelangelo Pistoletto b. 1933, Biella, Italy
Michelangelo Pistoletto is a leading figure of the Arte Povera movement and one of the most influential European artists of the post-war period. He created his first Mirror Paintings in 1961–62, works that brought him international recognition and have remained central to his practice for over six decades. His work has been widely exhibited in major museums and institutions worldwide and continues to explore the relationship between art, society, and transformation.

This exhibition is organised with the support of Galleria Continua.

About Robilant+Voena
Robilant+Voena is a partnership of art dealers Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena. They launched R+V in London in 2004. Further gallery spaces were opened in Milan in 2009, and Paris and New York in 2020. R+V has distinguished itself as one of the leading international art dealers in Old Master paintings, as well as 20th-century Italian art. In recent years, the gallery’s dual specialisms in European Old Master paintings and 20th-century Italian art have been complemented by a carefully curated programme of contemporary projects, working with artists whose practices build upon the artistic inheritance of the past.

R+V is committed to excellence across all its activities. The gallery strives to create dynamic, thought-provoking exhibitions that juxtapose the old and the new, creating unexpected links between artists working across the centuries and drawing out eternal themes through art.

The gallery has sold paintings and works of art to many important private and royal collectors and museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery London, the Gallerie dell'Accademia Venice, the Pinacoteca di Brera Milan, the Musée d’Orsay, the National Gallery of Stockholm, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and the Museum of Western Art Tokyo. R+V is represented at the most prestigious fine art fairs in the world, and is committed to its active exhibitions program and the publication of books and scholarly catalogues.

Current and upcoming exhibitions
Milan
Philippe Pastor. North Pole and Other Precarious Landscapes, 1 December – 27 February
Jordan Watson: Sound of Gold, 2 – 27 February

New York
Robert Ryan: Another Time and Place, 12 December – 19 February
Arnold Friedman, 6 March – 9 April

London
A Princely Taste: From Renaissance to Baroque, 19 January – early March

Art fairs
NOMAD St. Moritz, 12 – 15 February
TEFAF Maastricht, 14 – 19 March