"Solid Gold" at the Brooklyn Museum

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The Venus of the Rags sculptures by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto come in many versions but are all based on one idea. The artist purchased a plastic Venus sculpture in 1967 and placed it in his studio facing a pile of rags that he had used to clean his silk-screen mirror works. The contrast between the sculpture of the goddess of beauty and love and the soiled rags became a hallmark work in the Arte Povera movement and Pistoletto one of the movement's leading artists.

Brooklyn Museum "Solid Gold" exhibit

This is the only version of the work in gold

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The Venus of the Rags sculptures by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto come in many versions but are all based on one idea. The artist purchased a plastic Venus sculpture in 1967 and placed it in his studio facing a pile of rags that he had used to clean his silk-screen mirror works. The contrast between the sculpture of the goddess of beauty and love and the soiled rags became a hallmark work in the Arte Povera movement and Pistoletto one of the movement's leading artists.

Brooklyn Museum "Solid Gold" exhibit

This is the only version in gold.

The other work is artist El Anatsui, born in Ghana and
active in Nigeria. He is known for his "bottle top" art using thousands of aluminum pieces from alcohol recycling centers and stitched together with copper wire. While the material used for the works is stiff the resulting artwork is flexible and drapes beautifully when hung on a wall for display

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