“Cogli l’attimo, carpe diem, seize the day”, AMACI presents an online study day dedicate to performance The initiative – organised with the support of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture – is dedicated to performance and its presence in Italian museum collections and archives, and will start at 10 am on Wednesday 23 March 2022. Its programme, which features Michelangelo Pistoletto as one of the speakers, includes seven sessions – focusing on as many themes – which will create an opportunity for direct dialogue between artists, institutions and operators in the cultural sector. BY Redazione IL 18/03/2022 Leggi di più
Embedded art practice and the future of Biella The last weekly module of last year’s UNIDEE Residency in partnership with Fondazione Zegna was held in December 2021, and saw a group of artists explore the present and imagine the future of tourism in Biella, Oasi Zegna and the “wool” province. In order to give shape to this process, the participants entered into conversation with numerous experts on the themes addressed during the residency: artists from Cittadellarte, the staff of Fondazione Zegna, a hiking guide, a basket maker, a brewer and an expert in wild herbs. The programme of the module also led to an immersive experience around the natural elements of the territory, such as the water of the rivers, the beech trees of the Oasi Zegna, the “carabo d'Olimpia” (a type of beetle) and the snow. BY Luca Deias IL 22/02/2022 Leggi di più
“UNIDEE LABS 2021/2022”, when socially engaged art transcends the boundaires of the pandemic Last November, Fondazione Pistoletto hosted a new type of UNIDEE module: for the occasion the participating artists shared and carried out new investigations into their artistic practice under the guidance of a team of international mentors, interfacing with the context of Cittadellarte and the Biellese wool territory in a multi-level process of decontextualisation. Through seminars, meetings, guided tours, collective and individual explorations, the residents delved into the new relations between pandemic and socially engaged art, each with their own creative approach and with the contaminations offered by the organised activities, identifying new methodologies and tools applicable to their own research projects. The labs 'Artwork as Toolkit' and 'Tools for the Commons' will be launched in March 2022. BY Luca Deias IL 11/02/2022 Leggi di più
“Project Etere”, when experimental and collaborative architecture leads to an urban and social renaissance The project, launched in Bali in 2019 in response to the growing urbanisation of the island due to the rapid increase in mass tourism, proposes a new model of real estate development aimed at giving new life to the numerous unfinished or disused buildings that characterise the Indonesian island. The initiative, conceived by Ran Ben-Shaya and Eva Natasa and curated by Bali-based Italian artist and Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassador Marco Cassani, focuses on the role of sustainable architecture in the contemporary era, seeking a balance between necessity and excess, and between essentiality and luxury. BY Luca Deias IL 03/02/2022 Leggi di più
The project “Refectory” kicks off in Geneva, when gastronomy meets solidarity On 28 January, the MATER Foundation, chef Walter el Nagar, Food for Soul and chef Massimo Bottura presented the site of the Refectory, located at 120 rue de Lyon, in the Charmilles district. The ceremony was also attended by Giulia Pessina (Cittadellarte communication manager), Olga Pirazzi (Fashion B.E.S.T. manager), Clara Pogliani (Unidee Academy) and Francesco Saverio Teruzzi (coordinator of the Rebirth/Third Paradise ambassadors), who organised and curated the first meeting of the Geneva Demopractic Work and unveiled the work "I Tavoli del Terzo Paradiso". Cittadellarte's Fashion Office, with the collaboration of fashion designer Flavia La Rocca, designed and produced a series of sustainable uniforms to be worn by the cooks and waiting staff. BY Luca Deias IL 31/01/2022 Leggi di più
Third Paradise in Lapland, reindeer celebrate the Rebirth Day On 21 December, the Rebirth/Third Paradise embassy in the Finnish Arctic created and curated a living installation of the trinamic symbol in nature. The unusual protagonists of the work were the reindeer from a historic local farm: "The installation – said Rebirth ambassadresses Eija Tarkiainen and Anne Murto – is intended to evoke the forces of nature so that they, together with man, may resume travelling along that third path that can take us back to the paradise of the origins, to the Third Paradise prophesied by Michelangelo Pistoletto". BY Luca Deias IL 12/01/2022 Leggi di più
Antropòceneannàmo The conference "Places of culture as protagonists of urban regeneration", held on 16 November and organised as part of the 18th edition of "Urbanpromo", focused on investigating the urban and territorial role of cultural spaces. Speaking at the event at the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan were Paolo Naldini, director of Cittadellarte, and Michele Cerruti But, academic coordinator of Accademia Unidee. Here is Naldini’s full speech. BY Paolo Naldini IL 22/11/2021 Leggi di più
The Third Paradise on the border between Turkey and Syria, when a symbol pacifies opposites Nicolò Marchetti, full professor in the Department of History and Cultures of the University of Bologna, has curated an installation of the Third Paradise in Karkemish, on the western bank of the river Euphrates. The 30-metre long work, whose construction was requested by Fatma Şahin (metropolitan mayor of Gaziantep), was designed by the archaeologist with the collaboration of Michelangelo Pistoletto. “Karkemish is an extraordinary place – said the artist from Biella – and the right one to host the Third Paradise, a symbol that pacifies opposites, heals differences, promotes new models of participation in life by resolving conflicts, activating responsible practices that pacify us and give us the right to belong to our planet guaranteeing equal dignity to all the species that inhabit it”. BY Luca Deias IL 15/09/2021 Leggi di più