Art & Society
“Arte al Centro”: how to change the world with preventive peace and life with an artistic residency
The event’s opening was on 21 September, with a rich programme of exhibitions, talks and workshops. This edition was dedicated to 25 years of UNIDEE Residency Programs, the project of artistic residencies for art and social transformation. On this occasion Cittadellarte also hosted the UNESCO round table “Education to Preventive Peace”, during which the new Recommendation on Education to Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development was presented for the first time in Italy. “The anniversary of UNIDEE,” said the president of Cittadellarte Giuliana Carusi Setari, “brought an intense and significant day of celebration and reflection. For me, being able to talk about joy and beauty in this historical moment is like a breath of fresh art”.
Francesca Carbone, 23/09/2024
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‘The Preventive Peace Flag’: a Third Paradise flag generates art waves in the sea of Bali
From 19 April to 2 May, the Indonesian island hosted ‘Kayu in Viaggio’, a collective exhibition of local and international artists held on a catamaran made entirely of carbon. The protagonists were invited to design a flag to be hoisted on the boat during the fourteen-day voyage: one of the featured exhibits was a work by Michelangelo Pistoletto proposed by artist and Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassador Marco Cassani. Here are the behind-the-scenes of the exhibition project told in an interview with Cassani.
Luca Deias, 17/06/2024
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‘Artivation for a responsible social transformation’: Michelangelo Pistoletto’s new exhibition opens in Tirana
Today - 21 May - the Centre for Openness and Dialogue (COD) and the Italian Cultural Institute is presenting the artist's new solo exhibition. The exposition project set up in Albania traces the guidelines of ‘Project Art’ through Pistoletto's works, and illustrates the birth and development of Cittadellarte and the Third Paradise on the concept of a ‘global civilisation’ that eliminates distances while maintaining differences.
Luca Deias, 29/05/2024
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‘T3rza Terra’: Michelangelo Pistoletto and Cittadellarte at Villa Manin
The art project will be open from 25 May to 31 December 2024 as an exhibition in the former Doge's residence, where some works by Michelangelo Pistoletto will be in dialogue with a series of works by eleven Italian and foreign artists. Its programme includes a cycle of conferences open to the public, inviting them to reflect on new opportunities to understand art and the role of artistic expression in the transformation of society and the territory.
Luca Deias, 28/05/2024
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The reactivation of an urban fabric through performance art works: a project by Accademia Unidee
Immersed in an otherworldly dimension like the one evoked by the industrial archaeology of the UNIDEE Space, on the evening of 16 April seven students from the course in Artistic Anatomy of Fondazione Pistoletto’s Accademia UNIDEE allowed the public to live experiences that were as intimate and topical as urgent and social, through a personal iconoplastic alphabet developed with the language of performance art. Weaving a narrative path oriented "from the inside to the outside, from the spiritual to the physical sphere, from the invisible to the visible", through art, they led spectators to a reflective movement on a question, the same question expressed at the end of the event and which the listeners themselves were invited to answer: "Unused spaces in the city: which would you like to see regenerated? For what end use?".
Francesca Carbone, 07/05/2024
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