The Art of Balance #54 | Gheller, Occhiena, Salvio, what will you wear? In the context of the collaboration between Cittadellarte Fashion B.E.S.T. and the European Institute of Design in Turin, the students - attending the Institute’s three-year course in Fashion Design - have taken part in the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”. Here are their three contributions, which allow us to widen the reflection on the theme of environmental, ethical and social sustainability, which is the focus of their thesis projects, developed also through their participation in B.E.S.T.’s workshops and meetings held in Biella and Cittadellarte in the course of the last academic year. Redazione, 09/09/2020 Read more
The Art of Balance #53 | Marco Papa, how will you think? The Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassador is the 53rd participant in the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Marco Papa proposes a reflection on balance and individual awareness, in an attempt to identify the social path the human race must try to travel: “We want an evolution without a revolution, catechising the doubt with the solution”. This episode’s guest also tells us how he will behave in the post-pandemic future: “I’ve been and will keep looking after more than one plot of land, so as to encourage animals to draw closer, after fires and ignorance have driven them away for the last thirty years”. Redazione, 07/09/2020 Read more
The Art of Balance #52 | Carlo Covini, what will you wear? Carlo Covini (Lenzing’s Business Development and Project Manager) is the 52nd participant in the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. This episode’s guest hopes that environment and sustainability will soon receive great social attention, the same as it has been for distancing and face mask use regulations. Covini then focuses on the company he works for illustrating how ethics meets fashion also through REFIBRA™ technology and TENCEL™ materials. “We collaborate with important brands,” he said, “but also with young fashion designers fiercely daring to interpret textile sustainability in innovative and uncompromising ways”. Redazione, 04/09/2020 Read more
The Art of Balance #51 | Alessia Siligardi, where will you live? The Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassadress is the 51st guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Alessia Siligardi contributes with a text she wrote last April, in full pandemic, in which she explains how she is pursuing the balance inspired by the Third Paradise in her daily life. A process that applies to every aspect: from her choice of food and water to clothes, from the products she uses for her personal and domestic hygiene to the type of toys she buys for her son. Here is how this episode’s guest is bringing sustainability into her own life. “I think,” she said, “that balance is the result of carefully recapturing the past combining it with present and future innovations”. Redazione, 03/09/2020 Read more
Face to face with Michelangelo Pistoletto: a special episode of our feature “The art of balance / Pandemopraxy” In a new interview, the Biellese artist has commented on the success of the initiative – which has so far received 50 contributions – launched by our Journal and conceived by Cittadellarte’s director Paolo Naldini. Michelangelo Pistoletto stresses the importance of the project: “It’s necessary,” he claims,“that each person coming into contact with others by expressing their thought through this initiative manages to find, in this multiplicity, answers producing something effective, because people can’t usually fulfil their wishes by themselves”. Luca Deias, 02/09/2020 Read more
The Art of Balance #50 | Daniel Tarozzi, what dreams will you dream? The director of our Journal is the 50th participant in the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. In his contribution, Daniel Tarozzi motivates the readers to always believe in their dreams, stressing how the key to achieve them doesn’t lie in the “if” but in the “how” to do it. This episode’s guest also explains how Italy is full of subjects and projects striving to concretely change the world, in spite of the obstacles and the distorted scenario of our country that the mass media usually depict. “We have to draw attention to stories of change and stop reinforcing a decadent scenario, reporting problems but also talking with the same vehemence about who proposes and activates solutions”. Daniel also identifies ways to provide young people with the drive to follow a virtuous path starting from education: “We must study to enhance ourselves, our spirituality and our awareness. Work is a means to live well and satisfy our primary needs, not an end on which to build our identity”. Redazione, 31/07/2020 Read more
The Art of Balance #49 | Silvia Stucky, how will you communicate? The artist is the 49th guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Silvia Stucky talks about the negative impact the human being has had on the planet (causing “an unbalance as fast as devastating”) in the Anthropocene. This episode’s guest also presents the peculiarities of her series of artistic shows called “equiLibri”: “Through these performances I share ideas that can help us live in balance with ourselves, with others, with the rules of nature and of the universe”. Redazione, 30/07/2020 Read more
The Art of Balance #48 | Riccardo Camanini, what will you eat? The chef is the 48th guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. The owner of the restaurant Lido 84 identifies the key elements to trigger social awareness on healthy eating: communication and the artisans of taste. Riccardo Camanini also reflects on the relevance of food traditions and on the importance of properly educate children on how to behave at the table. Redazione, 29/07/2020 Read more
