Tenley Bick, 2019-20 Scholar-in-Residence at Magazzino Italian Art and Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art at Florida State University, examines Michelangelo Pistoletto’s quadri specchianti (mirror paintings) through investigation of his understudied Comizi (Rallies) series, inspired by the political climate and tumultuous context of mid-1960s Italy. By shedding light on the Comizi and related works’ navigation of Italian labor politics, American Pop, and the cultural geopolitics of the transatlantic context of the early Cold War, this lecture reintroduces the Comizi as the birthplace of and proposes a new model of political figuration in the 1960s, repositioning understanding of the mirror paintings and the history of postwar Italian and European art.