26/04/2023 Michelangelo Pistoletto will deliver three “Artist Lectures” at the Louvre in Paris The Louvre is starting a cycle of "Leçon d'artiste", which will bring different exponents of contemporary art to hold conferences to talk about their vision of the French museum. For the first edition of the initiative, the protagonist will be Michelangelo Pistoletto: at the Michel Laclotte auditorium, on three separate occasions between 27 April and 11 May 2023, the artist will be building connections between certain aspects of his work (the mirror painting), his thinking (the notion of archipelago) and the Louvre's collections and the way in which the museum institution can be imagined today. IL 26/04/2023 Leggi di più
10/03/2023 “Rebirth Path”, the voices of Italian music join the global flash mob on 21 March 2023 Artists Giovanni Caccamo, La Rappresentante di Lista, Chiara Galiazzo, Simona Molinari, Sade Mangiaracina, Giancarlo Romani, Daniela Lapegna, Francesca Armocida, Gabriela Buonasorte, Claudia Sala and actor Claudio Santamaria star in a promotional video ahead of the global performance conceived by Michelangelo Pistoletto. “The flash mob,” say the organisers, “aims at global participation, against all monstrosities caused by man. All of them, none excluded”. IL 10/03/2023 Leggi di più
03/03/2023 “The Formula of Creation”, the Italian tour to present Michelangelo Pistoletto’s new book has started After the stop in Mantua on 22 February, the literary tour that will take the Biellese artist around Italy to present his new book will resume on 15 March with a date in Rome. The volume, published by Cittadellarte, retraces, step by step, the path that human beings have travelled in creating religion, politics, science and the cultures of society thanks to the germinal enzyme of art. IL 03/03/2023 Leggi di più
21/02/2023 From the Third Paradise to the “Rebirth Path”: a global flash mob against all monstrosities caused by the actions of men Michelangelo Pistoletto launches an appeal, or rather, a call to action: "join hands" on 21 March 2023, drawing a single virtual line around our planet. The initiative, which aims for global participation, is "against all monstrosities caused by the actions of men. All of them, none excluded. A planetary event,” explain the organisers, “to be shared on social media, filmed and loaded on a website characterised by a map of the world: www.21march23.net'. IL 21/02/2023 Leggi di più
07/02/2023 “The artist and the astronaut”, a meeting with Michelangelo Pistoletto and Paolo Nespoli in Fano On Saturday 11 February, at 5.30 p.m., Fondazione Carifano's Reception Room will host a conference featuring the Biellese artist and the former astronaut as speakers. The event will be an opportunity for the two guests to retrace some of the stages of the VITA space mission – which had the Third Paradise as its official symbol – and to draw parallels between art and astronomy. IL 07/02/2023 Leggi di più
18/01/2023 Discounted museum tickets: the “Artsupp Card” has been launched As of today – 18 January – you can buy a special loyalty card offered by Artsupp, the portal dedicated to cultural institutions gathering on a single platform all the news from the world of Italian art and museums. Cittadellarte too is part of the network of museums participating in the initiative: card holders will be able to join guided tours of Fondazione Pistoletto at a reduced price. IL 18/01/2023 Leggi di più
15/12/2022 When art meets sustainable fashion: the third edition of “Circulart” has been presented The protagonists of this year’s edition are two international artists and two international fashion designers, selected through an open call launched by Cittadellarte: Augustina Bottoni, Lucia Chain, Huge Sillytoe and Rebecca Sforzani, young talents called upon to create a work with fabrics produced by partner companies, focusing on dialogue and on the enhancement of the textile industry production chain. “CirculART is a research and innovation format with which we have now been experimenting for three years,” said Paolo Naldini, director of Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, “we start by identifying the challenges that companies deem as most urgent, and then explore possible lines of development with artists and experts from different sectors”. IL 15/12/2022 Leggi di più
02/11/2022 Sustainable and art for society: Biella offers 20 full exemptions for Accademia Unidee’s three-year courses Fondazione Pistoletto's Accademia Unidee, an institute of higher education based in Biella, created to build a sustainable vision of a possible balance between artifice and nature, is offering two three-year courses: one in Art for Social Sustainability and one in Sustainable Fashion. Exemptions (up to 100%) and scholarships are available to reward students’ motivation to attend its courses. IL 02/11/2022 Leggi di più