“Girasoli” by Michelangelo Pistoletto belongs to one of the artist’s most recognisable areas of research, based on the relationship between image, space and the presence of the viewer. Created in 1970, the work uses colour silkscreen on mirror-polished steel, a material central to Pistoletto’s artistic language and capable of transforming the surface of the work into a dynamic and continuously changing space.
In “Girasoli”, the figurative subject enters into a direct relationship with the surrounding environment through the reflective surface. The image therefore does not remain isolated, but is completed by what takes place in front of the work, involving the viewer and making them part of the composition. It is precisely this dialogue between real figure, silkscreened image and reflection. That constitutes one of the most innovative aspects of Pistoletto’s research between the 1960s and 1970s.
The theme of the sunflowers also introduces an element of immediate visual recognisability, set against the coolness and precision of the mirrored steel. The result is a work in which nature and artifice, presence and representation, surface and space are placed in tension. According to a language that has made Pistoletto one of the central figures of Italian art in the second half of the twentieth century.
Description: Colour silkscreen on mirror-polished steel, signed and numbered 182/450 on the back. H cm 100 × 70..
Hammer Price: € 15.360,00
Auction 96 – 10 September 2025 – Modern and Contemporary Art
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