B.E.S.T. CITTADELLARTE Green light for the project “Trashformation”, creativity and innovation to reflect on sustainability On 7th February, Fondazione Pistoletto embarked on a new project aiming at taking the concept of reuse and sustainability into the future. The initiative, curated by Cittadellarte in collaboration with Officina+39, involves international artists and fashion designers. Let’s find out all the details. BY Luca Deias IL 18/02/2019 Leggi di più
CITTADELLARTE let eat bi Let Eat Bi: reclamation of the territory, farming and food in an event dedicated to saffron On Thursday 21st February, Cittadellarte will host the first initiative in the Green Academy’s 2019 programme. The speaker of the event will be farmer Enrico Covolo, who will illustrate the peculiarities and the story of the production of its saffron in Coggiola (BI). BY Luca Deias IL 04/02/2019 Leggi di più
CITTADELLARTE Michelangelo Pistoletto From Ettore to Michelangelo Pistoletto, in April the opening of the exhibition “Padre e figlio” (Father and son) From spring 2019, Biella and Trivero will host a big exhibition project developed over three different venues: Palazzo Gromo Losa, Cittadellarte and Casa Zegna. Curated by Alberto Fiz, it puts Michelangelo Pistoletto’s and his father Ettore Olivero Pistoletto’s arts in dialogue with each other. Here is an anticipation of the event. BY Luca Deias IL 09/01/2019 Leggi di più
rebirth day Terzo Paradiso third paradise Rebirth Day in Naples, youths imagine the city of their dreams between ideas and practices An initiative inspired and dedicated to the Third Paradise and involving about a hundred students was held at the Comprehensive Institute Marino – Santa Rosa in Ponticelli, in Naples’ eastern suburbs. The youths, led by the Rebirth / Third Paradise ambassador Davide Carnevale, have also been investigating the ideal relationship between citizens and community. Let’s find out all the details. BY Luca Deias IL 07/01/2019 Leggi di più
Art as an instrument for social change in the most recent UNIDEE module Last week, Cittadellarte hosted “Broadcasting the archive #10”, University of Ideas’ module curated by Gemma Medina Estupiñan and Alessandra Saviotti. In the course of the initiative, six international artists in residency analysed a few case studies from the archive of Asociacion de Arte Útil (a database of about 300 projects in which art has generated a responsible social change) and the projects developed by Cittadellarte on the theme of food. BY Luca Deias IL 11/12/2018 Leggi di più
Terzo Paradiso third paradise The Third Paradise in Arpaise, when art evelopes and draws man to nature The fifth edition of the Happy Earth Days has just come to an end with the installation of a new Third Paradise, outlined planting 70 trees of 7 local Samnite species. Let’s find out all the details of this “vegetal” work of art and its creation. BY Luca Deias IL 16/11/2018 Leggi di più
third paradise The artistic practice and the Open Source Gallery, how the Third Paradise changes New York The Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassadress Monika Wuhrer tells us about herself and the development of her artistic practice in the Big Apple: in a socio-political analysis of America, here is how art can become the instrument for responsibly transforming the community through a patchwork of initiatives and projects (Seamstress Project, Open Source Gallery, The cHURCH OF MONIKA). “Socially engaged art – writes Monika - has opened the conversation to those who are often excluded from it, creating more accessibility rather than cultivating an atmosphere that intimidates newcomers.” BY Monika Wuhrer IL 13/11/2018 Leggi di più
Ginevra Naldini and her stage at Cuba’s Rebirth/Third Paradise Embassy (part two) Here is the second part of the text by our correspondent Ginevra Naldini, who tells us about her 20 day experience at the Rebirth/Third Paradise embassy in Havana. BY Ginevra Naldini IL 19/10/2018 Leggi di più