Lessons on Process: Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Sculpture for Strolling

This lecture examines contemporary Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Sculpture for Strolling in relation to its precedents in the artists’ oeuvre: his pressed newspaper “spheres,” the Oggetti in meno (Minus Objects; 1965–66) of their association, and “Walking Sculpture,” first performed in 1967 in Turin, Italy. Drawing upon her interviews with the artist and from her own execution of Pistoletto’s work for do it at MoFA, Dr. Bick discusses the stakes of Pistoletto’s process in the context of mid-60s Italy and shares lessons from process-based art historical research today.