Michelangelo Pistoletto was a leading figure of the Arte Povera and Conceptual Art movements, his mediums stretching across painting, sculpture, film, video and theater. Autoritratto (Self Portrait) is part of Pistoletto’s best known series of “mirror paintings.” These paintings began in the 1960s with Pistoletto covering canvases with metallic paint and later replacing the canvas for a polished stainless steel surface. The reflective Autoritratto (Self Portrait), which is a photo-silkscreened self portrait on polished stainless steel, integrates the viewer and his surroundings into the artwork, blurring the line between reality and representation.