The series Color and Light was initiated by the artist in 2014, developed out of an earlier precursor series, Black and Light (begun in 2007). Each work in the series explores the relationship between the two titular elements, colour and light, as well as themes that underpin the artist’s oeuvre more widely: the active dimension of time; the integral inclusion of the observer and the surroundings; the encounter of oppositional concepts such as static/dynamic and absolute/relative; and the complete obliteration of the sense of the picture surface being an illusory window onto the world – the mirror instead encapsulates objectively the infinity.
This artwork Color and Light comprises a single element, formed of hand-cut fragments of black and white mirror, juxtaposed with jute painted in a bright blue hue, and a gilded wood frame. The use of the humble material jute alludes to the artist's early works and typical elements found in the history of art.
The playful and bold nature of the work evokes the wonder and simplicity of childhood. The puzzle-like forms of the mirrors fit together effortlessly; each segment interacts with the viewer and the environment in a distinctive way, while together the components assume a new identity as an artwork that examines the shifting relationship between reflective surface and colour field.

Pistoletto has said of Color and Light: ‘It is a work of broken mirrors but executed in an orderly manner. … Each fragment of the mirror can be considered as a person who is part of a larger mirror, that is, society. Society is like a big mirror.’