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. BY Redazione IL 29/07/2020 Leggi di più
The Art of Balance #46 | Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, who will you meet? The editor of Exibart is the 46th guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, after a first analysis of the impact of Covid-19 on society, answers the question posed by the initiative, identifying in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (director of Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Art Museum and of the Francesco Federito Cerruti Foundation in Turin) the person he would like to meet. The guest says he’s actually already had the opportunity to interview Christov-Bakagiev on Skype, and refers some of the salient parts of their exchange, going through what emerged and their multi-thematic reflections in relation to the world of art. BY Redazione IL 27/07/2020 Leggi di più
The Art of Balance #43 | Maria Gabriella Lay, how will you work? The Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassadress and representative of ILO (International Labour Organization, agency of the United Nations) is the 43rd guest is the 43rd guest of the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Maria Gabriella Lay talks about the problems caused by the pandemic, but she also identifies key ways to face the post-Coronavirus: “The trinamic formula of the Third Paradise can and must provide the guidelines for the process of analysis and rebirth, and the Art of Demopraxy can trace a path to achieve the Goals of the 2030 Agenda”. This episode’s guest also talks about the role of sustainability (in the economic, social and environmental sectors) during and after the Covid-19 emergency and about the recent work of ILO. Furthermore, she illustrates the mission and commitment of “Giovani in azione” (Youths in action), the project she is developing in Sardinia. BY Redazione IL 20/07/2020 Leggi di più
The art of balance #30 | Angelo Riva, what will you produce? The Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassador is the 30th guest of “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Angelo Riva tells about some of the activities that have involved Lecco’s embassy in the front line, highlighting the peculiarities and the behind-the-scenes of the initiative “City4Care”, based on “prevention through the activation of the whole community for its care, people who have received care or are at risk preparing to look after the caregivers, the themes of art, food, meditation, the generational encounter between elderlies and children”. The ambassador also talks about a project to repurpose a centre of artistic production, which will be turned into a centre for the rehabilitation of patients suffering from the consequences of a stroke or from Parkinson’s disease. BY Redazione IL 19/06/2020 Leggi di più
The art of balance #27 | Giorgio de Finis, who will you meet? The Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassador and anthropologist (as well as curator and film director) is the 27th guest of “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Giorgio de Finis reflects on the impact the pandemic has had on social relations, and in particular on the change cities all over the world have gone through as a consequence of the spreading of Covid-19. “It’s undeniable,” he said, “that the virus has breached through the ‘social body’, causing, to different degrees but globally, a withdrawal in ourselves, a raising of shields, a diffidence that has been somehow justified as a slowing down, a taking time to reassess priorities, choose and ponder”. BY Redazione IL 15/06/2020 Leggi di più
The art of balance #13 | Enzo Chiarullo, how will you communicate? The journalist is the thirteenth guest of “The art of balance / Pandemopraxy”, the initiative launched by Cittadellarte. Enzo Chiarullo, starting from the premise that governments from all over the world are entrusting specifically assembled local task forces with the responsibility of ferrying us into the post-pandemic, wonders if we might not need “a super task force of all task forces” we could all refer to so as to act in a concerted manner aimed at accomplishing a new sustainable global dimension. Here is who could be part of it according to Chiarullo. BY Redazione IL 26/05/2020 Leggi di più
The art of balance #10 | “What decision will you take?”, answering is the “Francesca Pasquali Archive” Francesca Pasquali (artist), Ilaria Bignotti (scientific director of the Francesca Pasquali Archive) and Melania Raimondi (curatorial assistant and social media manager) have participated in the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy” collectively: together, they have concisely answered every question contemplated in the new project launched by Cittadellarte. BY Redazione IL 22/05/2020 Leggi di più
The art of balance #6 | Manuela Gandini, what decision will you take? Manuela Gandini – independent curator, art critic, professor at NABA in Milan and Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassadress – is the sixth guest of the new initiative launched by Cittadellarte, a project of rebirth and responsible social transformation called “The art of balance / Pandemopraxy”. Manuela participates proposing her text “I will make a masterpiece out of myself – Reflections on the new era”, in which she recalls her “Phase 1” on personal and professional level, and reflects on the impact the Coronavirus will have in the social context, identifying the possible roles of art and the Third Paradise. “Covid-19 is a disease, but it is also a metaphor of the disease, – she argues – an effect of the psychic rifts we have caused between us and the world, between us and ourselves”. BY Redazione IL 18/05/2020 Leggi di più