Ettore Oliviero Pistoletto - Untitled

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

In his pictorial work, artist Ettore Oliviero Pistoletto stands out for his truly excellent formal quality. This can be seen in the many portraits he has created, in which, despite the diversity of subjects, a profound sense of naturalistic rendering, interpreted in a modern key, remains constant. Indeed, although his capture of facial features is impeccable, almost photographic, Pistoletto avoids any attempt to idealize the subject. For this reason, his characters are imbued with a real vitality, born of the genuineness of their gestures, their sometimes almost casual poses, and the profound existential vibrations he manages to convey through his painting. Indeed, Ettore Oliviero Pistoletto's pictorial style is distinguished by its great complexity and a modern sense of naturalistic rendering. His linework is fluid and, in some cases, more synthetic, achieving a truly realistic and therefore living dimension to the human figure.

Ettore Olivero Pistoletto, father of Michelangelo Pistoletto, was born
He died in Arnodera, a hamlet of Gravere, in 1898, and passed away in Sanremo in 1981. His life is connected to the Susa Valley, to its inhabitants accustomed to hard work in the fields, to the mountains, to its plateau at the foot of the high mountains of the Madonna della Losa di Gravere, to the woods that loom over the humble houses of the villages. It is here that Ettore, as a very young man, drew his inspiration, it is here that he learned to love nature and to paint it. In these regions, the family led a simple patriarchal life. The young man, who became completely deaf at the age of eight following a serious illness, wandered from one crag to another, from one farmhouse to another, intent on listening in his heart to the voice of the meadows and rocks, the echo of the valleys. Famous are the “still lifes” in which the vibrant vivacity fades and calms into a delicate lyricism when the artist's vision opens up to the “landscape”.

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