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Michelangelo Pistoletto, born 1933 in Biella, Italy, lives and works in Turin and Vienna. In 1961, when Pistoletto - one of the main figures of Arte Povera - conceived and realized the first mirror painting, he created a moment of simultaneity between the painted surface, the viewer, and the viewer´s reflection never before achieved in painting. The mirror painting becomes the equilibrating membrane between unity and multiplicity, past and future, and any other complementary opposites.