“I believe that Man’s first real figurative experience is the recognition of his own image in the mirror,” Michelangelo Pistoletto has said. It’s “the fiction which comes closest to reality.” Born in 1933 in Biella, Italy, Pistoletto began his career working in his father’s restoration workshop, in Turin. That practice fostered a love for painting on mirror, a surface that prompts a dialogue between the viewer and their reflected image. With mirror as his chosen medium, Pistoletto became one of the leading figures of Arte Povera, a movement that saw artists rejecting the commercialization of art and instead using unconventional materials. In 2025, the artist was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This exhibition in St. Moritz showcases five new Pistoletto mirror works as well as a small silkscreen on steel that nods to Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam. —Maggie Turner