The work of Pistoletto and his painter father Ettore Olivero Pistoletto are the subject of a huge three-venue exhibition,, taking place at Casa Zegna in the stunning Piedmontese village of Trivero, Michelangelo’s utopian research centre Cittadellarte and at the Palazzo Gromo Losa in Biella. “The idea came to recreate this sort of saga from father to son. Michelangelo, having this beautiful relationship with the local area, he said yes,” Anna Zegna says.
Zegna asked Ettore to recommission the paintings, which were torn down when the factory was expanded, in 1947. Ettore agreed, suggesting the new versions were made on canvas in case they needed to be moved again in the future. A young teenage Michelangelo assisted him on the project as a driver, and he and his mother feature throughout the ten paintings on display at Casa Zegna as Renaissance characters working with the production of wool.Ettore’s relationship to Zegna, however, goes further.
Michelangelo founded his own research centre, Cittadellarte, in nearby Biella in the mid 1990s. Based in a converted wool mill, and also a location for the exhibition, Cittadellarte has a more contemporary take on utopian motivations. Based around Ettore’s concept of the Third Paradise, his aim was to create a space that funded and focused on research in ecology, politics, labour, technology and spirituality. The desire was to inspire real social change.
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