To coincide with the “Arte Povera” exhibition, the Bourse de Commerce and Magma Journal presented a performance by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto.

A central figure in contemporary art since the 1960s and the birth of the “Arte Povera” movement, Michelangelo Pistoletto is famous for his performances involving mirrors. In the Auditorium of the Bourse de Commerce, the artist offered an exclusive performance around the work Metrocubo d'infinito (Cubic meter of infinity), presented in the exhibition in Gallery 3 and forming part of Oggetti in meno (Minus Objects), a series of works exhibited in his studio between December 1965 and January 1966.

In this apparently ordinary, ridiculously sized box, a symbolical cubic metre, is actually vast infinity. A neutral sculpture of six mirrors tied and turned towards the interior, of which only infinite reflections can be imagined, Metrocubo d’Infinito (Infinite cubic metre) focuses Michelangelo Pistoletto’s concerns with the physical potentialities of mirrors and their mystical allusions.