On Tuesday 15th December, at 7.00 pm, at the Theatre of the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo, there will be a meeting with Michelangelo Pistoletto, guest of honour at the 25th Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries, which will be held from 17th December 2009 until 31st January 2010. The Biennale is one of the leading art events in the world and its aim is to fortify the cultural and artistic dialog not only between Egypt and its neighboring Mediterranean countries but to extend it all over the world as well. Thanks to Love Difference, a movement founded by Pistoletto, in 2002, it was possible to host him in Egypt, presenting, at the Biennale, the installation: Ten Less One.
The large framed mirrors placed around the walls of the room are intact, at first. The mirror offers its surface to physical life, as a witness to its unlimited extent in space and time.
When the mirror is shattered its reflective power is not lost, it is multiplied, as many times there are fragments. During the performance, the breaking of each framed mirror is like a small galactic explosion that multiplies the particles of reflection, and remains in the exhibition as the memory of a precise instant of the past ceaselessly reflected in a new present.
One mirror remains intact in reference to the seed of the unending regeneration of light and life. There is a dramatic power in this virtual, art process that corresponds to the real. Yet the drama is resolved in emotional moments that, by reflection, lead us to think of our own existence.
Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella in 1993; he was an animating force and a leading figure of the Arte Povera, like Anselmo, Boetti, Kounellis, Merz, Paolini e Zorio; he is considered one of the greatest artist in the worldwide artistic scene, frequently invited from the major museums, he took part in the most important group exhibitions (Documenta, Münster and Biennale).
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