Pistoletto & Sotheby's

Pistoletto & Sotheby's — Plot

This film represents an encounter with several major icons of the history of western painting, "while attempting"–as the filmmaker says–"to always create a link between art and life, an impertinence with respect to those images that the production of works of documentation [books and magazines] brought to the attention of everyone for the first time." Reclaiming art history in a performative, playful way and evoking the tradition of tableau vivant, Pistoletto with his daughters Cristina and Maria Pioppi "act out" in a series of little scenes: Orpheus and Eurydice, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Raphael, Chaim Soutine, James Ensor, Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh.

• Release date
• March 12, 1968
• Runtime
• 22 min
• Director
• Pia Epremian

Pistoletto & Sotheby's — Cast

M

Maria Pioppi

C

Cristina Pistoletto Michelangelo Pistoletto