The petite conTatto invites an intimate experience of looking and meditation. First exhibited in 2017, in One and one makes three, a solo show at the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, in the work Pistoletto reinterprets Michelangelo Buonarotti’s Renaissance masterpiece the Creation of Adam. By positioning two sections of a single mirror at an angle to each other, the reflective potential of the original mirror is increased.

Here the real hand is reflected in the adjacent mirror, revealing its virtual, reflected counterpart. Unlike the in Sistine Chapel, this is not the hand of God giving life to Man, but the hand of Man creating the virtual hand of God.