Pistoletto Sothebys

This film represents an encounter with several major icons of the history of western painting while attemptingas the filmmaker saysto 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