Tribal Art < Back Small Dan Mask Small Dan Mask from Ivory Coast, Mid twentieth century, Wood, Leather, Other Fibers, H 17,5 cm W 5,5 cm

Contemporary Art < Back MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO Biella, 1933 Born in Biella in 1933. He began to exhibit his work in 1955 and in 1960 he had his first solo show at Galleria Galatea in Turin. An inquiry into self-portraiture characterizes his early work. In the two-year period 1961-1962 made the first Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work, and open up perspective, reversing the Renaissance perspective that had been closed by the twentieth-century avant-gardes. These works quickly brought Pistoletto international acclaim, leading, in the sixties, to one-man shows in important galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. The Mirror Paintings are the foundation of his subsequent artistic output and theoretical thought. In 1965 and 1966 he produced a set of works entitled Minus Objects, considered fundamental to the birth of Arte Povera, an art movement of which Pistoletto was an animating force and a protagonist. In 1967 he began to work outside traditional exhibition spaces, with the first instances of that “creative collaboration” he developed over the following decades by bringing together artists from different disciplines and diverse sectors of society. In 1975-76 he presented a cycle of twelve consecutive exhibitions, Le Stanze, at the Stein Gallery in Turin. This was the first of a series of complex, year-long works called “time continents”. Others are White Year (1989) and Happy Turtle (1992). In 1978, in a show in Turin, Pistoletto defined two main directions his future artwork would take: Division and Multiplication of the Mirror and Art Takes On Religion. In the early eighties he made a series of sculptures in rigid polyurethane, translated into marble for his solo show in 1984 at Forte di Belvedere in Florence. From 1985 to 1989 he created the series of “dark” volumes called Art of Squalor. During the nineties, with Project Art and with the creation in Biella of Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto and the University of Ideas, he brought art into active relation with diverse spheres of society with the aim of inspiring and producing responsible social change. In 2003 he won the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifelong Achievement. In 2004 the University of Turin awarded him a laurea honoris causa in Political Science. On that occasion the artist announced what has become the most recent phase of his work, Third Paradise. In 2007, in Jerusalem, he received the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, “for his constantly inventive career as an artist, educator and activist whose restless intelligence has created prescient forms of art that contribute to fresh understanding of the world.” In 2010 he wrote the essay The Third Paradise, published in Italian, English, French and German. In 2012 he started promoting the Rebirth-day, first worldwide day of rebirth, celebrated every year on 21st December with initiatives taking place all around the world. In 2013 the Louvre in Paris hosted his personal exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto, année un – le paradis sur terre. In this same year he received the Praemium Imperiale for painting, in Tokyo. In May 2015 he received a degree honoris causa from the Universidad de las Artes of Havana in Cuba. In the same year he realizes a work of big dimensions, called Rebirth, situated in the park of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, headquarters of the UN. In 2017 the text written by Michelangelo Pistoletto Ominitheism and Demopraxy. Manifesto for a regeneration of society was published. Between 2018 and 2020 the activity of the Third Paradise has further intensified, in particular through the development of an international network of Embassies and Forums. In these same years he has been particularly active in various South American countries, with personal exhibitions and a series of initiatives linked to the Third Paradise. Fractal, 1999 [front] Glass Signed Fractal, 1999 [back] Glass Signed Chiave in mano, 2014 Screen printing technique on steel 40cm (H) x 30cm (W) Signed, 142/300 Untitled, 2004 Screen printing / mirror collage Signed, 14/100 Intermediterraneo-Love Difference, 2002 Screen printing technique on plexiglass 25,5cm (H) x 35,0cm (W) Signed, 257/500

Archeological < Back CERAMIC VASE Ceramic vase depicting zoomorphic figure from the Chimú culture, Peru Circa 1200 AD Terracotta H 18,0 x W 12,5 x D 8,5 cm

Archeological < Back CERAMIC SCULPTURE Antropomorphic ceramic sculpture from the Colima culture, Mexico Circa 100 BC - 300 AD Terracotta H 20,5 x W 10 cm Provenance : Brenda and Wally Zollman collection (USA)

Miscellaneous < Back LAMBAYEQUE VASE, 1100-1400 AD Vase with incised decoration on the foot depicting waves and steps Lambayeque culture, Peru 1100-1400 AD Orange and brown clay H 22 cm x W 14,5 cm x D 13,5 cm

Archeological < Back HEMISPHERIC VASE Hemispheric vase from the Nazca culture, Peru Circa 200 AD - 600 AD Polychromed terracota H 16 x D 13 cm Observations : Depiction of god Jaguar on the vase's hemispheric surface.

Exhibitions Archive < Back PARAISO ESGOTADO Paulo Moreira OPENING 20 de abr. de 2023 CLOSING 12 de mai. de 2023 Na exposição "Paraíso Esgotado"*, Paulo Moreira apresenta um conjunto de obras que refletem sobre questões que têm estado no centro do seu trabalho desde que iniciou o seu percurso artístico, há mais de vinte anos: a sociedade contemporânea, a decadência moral, a subversão de valores democráticos, a destruição de princípios de igualdade e justiça social. Este artista tem vindo a desenvolver um projeto no qual questiona a perceção destes conceitos e a possibilidade da sua representação. Mais do que direcionar a sua pesquisa para questões exclusivamente formais, interessa a Paulo Moreira concretizar obras que remetam para um leque variado de experiências e sensações. O processo de produção destas obras é longo. Como se de uma sequência estratigráfica se tratasse, cada uma destas obras é composta por várias camadas, construídas com recurso à pintura, ao desenho e à colagem. Neste processo, que caracteriza uma boa parte da sua prática artística, o papel (a colagem) constitui, quase sempre, a última camada das peças. Rasgado, riscado, ferido, sobreposto, denuncia o estado deteriorado, caótico, da sociedade atual. *Título tomado de empréstimo de uma frase do filme A Comédia de Deus (1995) de João César Monteiro Raquel Gerra Curadora de Arte Previous Next

Miscellaneous < Back RUSTIC TRIPOD STOOL, early 20th c. Rustic Tripod Stool Early 20th century (or previous) Oak wood and metal applications H 38 cm x W 51 cm x D 27 cm

Miscellaneous < Back PIERRE JEANNERET CHAIR, 1960 ca. Pair of "Armless Easy Lounge" chairs Model: PJ-SI-35-A Designer: Pierre Jeanneret (Switzerland, 1896 - 1967) City of Chandigarh, India 1960 ca. Teak wood and straw H 70,5 cm x W 48,9 cm x D 74,3 cm x SH 35,5 cm Note: model made for private residences. Literature: Eric Touchaleaume, Gérald Moreau, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret: L'aventure indienne, The Indian adventure, design-art-architecture , Paris, 2010, pp. 565-566.

Miscellaneous < Back VASCO COSTA, 1971 VASCO COSTA (Lisbon, 1917 - Paris, 1986) Funambule 1971 Oil on canvas H 148 cm x W 99 cm