Happy Birthday Michelangelo! Collective interview for Pistoletto’s 91st birthday To mark this anniversary, we publish the collective interview conducted by the Rebirth/Terzo Paradiso ambassadors with Michelangelo Pistoletto at their annual meeting last March. Happy birthday maestro! Francesca Carbone, 25/06/2024 Read more
‘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 Read more
‘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 Read more
‘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 Read more
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 Read more
Michelangelo Pistoletto’s ‘Sphere of Newspapers’ at Il Sole 24 Ore The artist donated his work to mark the 40th anniversary of the newspaper's Sunday supplement 'Domenica'. As part of the celebrations of the editorial anniversary, the newspaper has hosted a closed-door meeting for the newspaper's employees, in which Pistoletto spoke with Stefano Salis about his artistic practice. Luca Deias, 22/04/2024 Read more
Products for responsible change: discovering Cittadellarte Store The Pistoletto Foundation’s store is the place where guided tours begin and end, but also where visitors can find a wide range of products like gadgets, jewellery, home accessories, books, food, cosmetics, unique and sustainable clothing. All items for sale in the Store, which is open from Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., can also be purchased from its website. Francesca Carbone, 08/04/2024 Read more
The new “Venus of the Rags” donated by Pistoletto to Naples: a journey into a rebirth through the voices of the artist and the institutions The work was inaugurated yesterday in Piazza Municipio, where it will be on display for three months. The installation was presented yesterday with a press conference held in the Sala Giunta in Palazzo San Giacomo: we discover the new Venus through the words of the artist himself, the mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi, the curator of the project "Napoli Contemporanea" Vincenzo Trione, the vice-president of the association Altra Napoli EF Antonio Roberto Lucidi, the coordinator of the Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassadors Francesco Saverio Teruzzi and Father Antonio Loffredo. Luca Deias, 02/04/2024 Read more
