Da Giovanni Caccamo a Michelangelo Pistoletto, sguardo al futuro della nuove generazioni nel “Manifesto del cambiamento” On Thursday 1 February, the singer visited Cittadellarte and met the artist to discuss the book edited by Caccamo and published by Treccani, which also features an artistic contribution by Pistoletto. "The afternoon at Cittadellarte," said Caccamo, "was an immersion in the light and depths of thought and beauty". Luca Deias, 27/02/2024 Read more
Sustainable fashion at Milan Fashion Week: Palazzo Giureconsulti hosts “Fashion to Reconnect – The capsule”. On 25 February, from 11.00 am to 5.30 pm, the sixteenth-century palace will display a selection of items from the exhibition opened last June in the spaces of the Pistoletto Foundation. The spotlight will be on "masterpieces that not only embody aesthetic beauty, but also social responsibility, - explain the organisers - serving as tools to raise awareness for positive change in the world". Luca Deias, 23/02/2024 Read more
“Fashion for Planet Open Parliament”, Cittadellarte and the National Chamber of Italian Fashion are back to give voice to the rights of nature On 22 February, Fondazione Pistoletto’s Fashion B.E.S.T. and CNMI will propose the third act of the event as part of "Milan Fashion Week". From 11.00 am to 5.30 pm, Palazzo Giureconsulti will host an immersive audiovisual experience that will give participants the opportunity to listen to nature through an artistic language. Luca Deias, 21/02/2024 Read more
RaiPlay Sound, an episode of “#Artlover” dedicated to Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Third Paradise The multimedia platform on Rai's radio channel featured an episode on the artist's trinamic symbol articulated in a dialogue between journalist Alma Manera and Fernando Miglietta. "With the Third Paradise," said the architect and essayist, "the artist has conceived a collective work that involves children, adults, artists and different ideologies". Luca Deias, 05/02/2024 Read more
Cittadellarte’s board of directors welcomes new members from the worlds of culture and law As of mid-December 2023, the board of Fondazione Pistoletto has five new members: Andrea Ciurcina (lawyer), Giuseppe La Masa (lawyer), Emanuele Montibeller (founder of Arte Sella), Simone Mainardi (accountant) and Andrea Montanari (professor and lawyer). "New sap," said president Giuliana Setari referring to the new councillors, "means new strength, and Cittadellarte needs it to face the challenges that lie ahead in 2024 and the coming years". Luca Deias, 29/01/2024 Read more
“Art and generative A.I.”, artificial intelligence meets creativity in the Third Paradise Michelangelo Pistoletto has conceived a new version of the trinamic symbol which represents the human brain and a sequence of bit strings in the two opposite circles, and the union and synthesis between the two in the central one. The work follows in the wake of the artist's research into artificial intelligence. Redazione, 24/01/2024 Read more
The director of Cittadellarte turns the hourglass: 2023 summarised in an interview with Paolo Naldini A journey through the grains of time of Fondazione Pistoletto: Paolo Naldini offered us an assessment of Cittadellarte's last year, touching on current social issues, including wars, feminicides and the climate crisis. "We need civic communities capable of producing valuable representatives, and of uniting the forces of peace at all levels of the social fabric," said the director. Luca Deias, 22/12/2023 Read more
The preventive peace at UNESCO: Michelangelo Pistoletto speaks at the High Level Ministerial Dialogue on Education for Peace On 8 November, Paris will host the UNESCO General Assembly, in which the education ministers of the UN specialised agency's member states will discuss the role of education in relation to the goal of global peace. Pistoletto will be among the guests at the initiative: the artist has been invited to give a speech that will focus on his artistic practice and, in particular, on "preventive peace". Luca Deias, 07/11/2023 Read more
