Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto reopens on Saturday 13th June 2020 #apertiaporteaperte: with this hastag, Fondazione Pistoletto announces the reopening in full safety of its exhibitions. After months of closure due to the health emergency, you’ll be able to access the spaces of the Biellese institution again, with Michelangelo Pistoletto’s works and the experiential visit of the Terme Culturali. Here are all the practical information on how to participate in a guided tour. Redazione, 09/06/2020 Read more
Pistoletto remembers Celant, Founder of arte povera and personal friend The Biellese artist has opened up to us on the subject in the course of a long interview recalling the many times in life when he found himself side by side with Celant, passed away on 29th April from the Coronavirus. It’s a journey through the memories of the founder of Cittadellarte, revealing the professional and personal relationship linking him to the curator from Genoa: “A concrete person in the way he operated, responsive and sensitive in his perception. For me. Germano gave art the Arte Povera movement”. Luca Deias, 01/05/2020 Read more
An interview with Michelangelo Pistoletto: “In this pandemic, the role of art is sensitivity” Here is what Pistoletto – talking to us from Biella’s hospital – thinks about Covid-19. The artist shares his personal experience and reflects on how the Coronavirus might trigger a social rebirth. What is the keystone of this process? The balance of the Third Paradise. Luca Deias, 16/04/2020 Read more
“Autoritratto attraverso mio padre” (Self-portrait through my father), the film about Michelangelo Pistoletto avaiable online for free On 10th April, from 11.00, the platform vimeo.com will exceptionally show the docufilm created in the context of the exhibition project “Padre e Figlio” (Father and son). The narration is in the form of dialogues of the artist with Alberto Fiz, curator of the exhibition, and Anna Zegna. Redazione, 08/04/2020 Read more
When solidarity meets rebirth: Lecce’s prison community donates 5000 masks In support of the fight against Covid-19, the non-profit organisation “Made in Carcere”, in the person of its founder Luciana Delle Donne, has launched a project which started in Lecce’s prison – thanks to the collaboration of its director Rita Russo – and has now involved Trani’s and Matera’s (and soon Taranto’s and Potenza’s) prisons and Lequile’s mayor Vincenzo Carlà. This has created a human chain of solidarity to assist people needing immediate protection. As part of a complex process of production, jailed women have also tirelessly sewn innovative and ecological filter holding masks for the inmates. Luca Deias, 07/04/2020 Read more
Talking to the world through fairy tales, when words trascend isolation An initiative has been launched proposing to talk and reflect about ourselves, on a cultural or personal level, through a fairy tale, a poem or a nursery rhyme. In a historic moment like this, sharing can help feel closer to one another: that’s how “Fairy tales from the world” was born, which presents stories in different languages through short videos created by Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassadors/dresses and Cittadellarte’s staff. Luca Deias, 06/04/2020 Read more
The economy in quarantine: the Pandemic Bonds Paolo Maria Candela, economist specialised in business finance and financial markets, offers our Journal an insight into a particular type of financial products directly linked to the current situation of global health emergency: a series of analyses and reflections investigating impacts and consequences of the Coronavirus on the national and international economy. Paolo Maria Candela, 02/04/2020 Read more
An appeal to the government and the Parliament for the institution of a national fund for culture Federculture has welcomed and relaunched the idea, proposed by Pierluigi Battista in the newspaper Corriere della Sera, to institute a National Fund for Culture, an investment instrument guaranteed by the State and open to donations by all the citizens who want to support the sector. Anybody can give their contribution to help formalise and draw attention to the appeal: you can sign the petition on the “change.org” portal, and share it through your social media and personal contacts. “We have to make Italian culture live, give it oxygen”. Luca Deias, 01/04/2020 Read more
