For this week’s research post, I chose to cover Michelangelo Pistoletto. Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian artist who is recognized as one of the most influential contemporary artists of his generation as well as a leading figure of the Arte Povera Movement. Pistoletto works with mirrored surfaces such as stainless steel and applies figurative, sculptural, and graphic paintings onto the polished surfaces. The reflective surfaces of his work intend to integrate the viewer and environment into his work, questioning the nature of reality and representation. In the years 1961 and 1962, Pistoletto made his first mirror paintings that reversed the Renaissance perspective by creating an open-up perspective which included the viewer in the work in real-time. These works quickly brought the artist international acclaim and he had solo exhibitions around the world with the most notable institutions being the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Tate Modern Museum in London.