Robilant+Voena, in collaboration with Galleria Continua, is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Michelangelo Pistoletto, for the gallery’s winter exhibition in St. Moritz. This is the first solo exhibition by the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated artist in St. Moritz, with works being produced specially for the ambient space of the Protestant Church in the centre of the Swiss alpine town.
The exhibition will feature five large mirror works from the series Color and Light, one from Black and Light, and one small silkscreen print on steel. The latter depicts a hand with outstretched index finger, reminiscent of the Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel; its position near the altar of the church enhances the meditative and devotional essence of the space.
Robilant+Voena’s exhibition presents six large mirror works by Pistoletto, composed of interlocking sections of black and white mirror and colourful jute, encapsulating the playful abstraction that embodies his current practice. Through the multiple reflective surfaces, the viewer and the church become integral to a perpetually changing exhibition experience, often shifting perspectives as the space and its visitors are continuously reflected.
In contrast to these large, brightly coloured mirror works, the petite conTatto is presented like an altarpiece, inviting 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, through 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.
This exhibition forms part of Robilant+Voena’s long-standing engagement with St. Moritz and contributes to the town’s vibrant winter cultural programme. Previous exhibitions held by the gallery in the town include: Jordan Watson and Vincenzo de Cotiis (2025); Minjung Kim (2024); Bleu Pastor (2024); 20th-Century Masterworks from Private Collections (2024); Harumi Klossowska de Rola (2023); Fontana and the Gothic (2022); Damien Hirst, Mental Escapology, the first exhibition of the artist’s work in Switzerland (2021); Les Lalanne (2020); Sean Scully. Aeternum (2020); Ettore Spalletti (2019); Calder, Fontana, Morandi (2019); Minjung Kim (2018–19); Alighiero Boetti (2018); Italian Post-War Sculpture (2017–18); and Lucio Fontana (2015–16).
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