Monday March 21
Piazza Duca D’Aosta, Milan
opening: 2.30 pm
“A symbolic work that opens itself to the world, in the same way as the train station, even symbolically, opens the city to the world”
Michelangelo Pistoletto
The work by Michelangelo The Apple Made Whole Again, built and installed at the center of Piazza del Duomo in Milan for the opening of EXPO, is placed permanently in a key place in the city: Piazza Duca D’Aosta, in front of the Stazione Centrale.
Flickr Album opening 21 March 2016
Michelangelo Pistoletto’s giant Apple Made Whole Again was installed at the center of Piazza del Duomo in Milan for the opening of the EXPO in May 2015. The work was dedicated by the FAI (Fondo Ambiente Italiano) to the fifth year of celebration of the VIA LATTEA, the “Milky Way” that comprises the entire agricultural hinterland of the Lombard capital, the largest in Italy.
The steel structure of the Apple Made Whole Again was covered entirely with (natural) turf. Around it a large symbol of the Third Paradise was outlined with bales of straw, laid out during a performance by 300 people. Authorities of the UN, the city of Milan and the FAI took part in the opening ceremony.
An agreement has been reached between Michelangelo Pistoletto, Cittadellarte, the FAI and representatives of the municipality of Milan for the donation of the Apple Made Whole Again to the city of Milan.
Piazza Duca d’Aosta, in front of the Stazione Centrale, has been chosen as the appropriate location for its permanent installation.
The sculpture will be officially unveiled on March 21st, 2016, following a month of work in which the metal structure of the Apple will be reassembled and then covered with a layer of clay that will give it the appearance of marble. In relation to the artistic and social significance of this work, Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto will organize, on the two days preceding the unveiling of the sculpture, a forum entitled“2° Rebirth Forum – The Apple Made Whole Again” that will be held on the premises of the Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in Milan.
OPENING PROGRAMME:
• 2.30 pm Collective Performance "Terzo Paradiso" • 2.45 pm Unveiling, in the presence of City authorities.
Speakers: •Giuliano Pisapia, Mayor of MIlan •Filippo Del Corno, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Milan •Maria Carmela Rozza, Councillor for Public Works and Street Furniture of the Municipality of Milan •Marco Magnifico, Executive Vice President FAI •Michelangelo Pistoletto, Artist
Moderator: Paolo Naldini, Director of Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto
A new work by Michelangelo Pistoletto for Milan
Third Paradise – The Apple Made Whole Again
An 8 meter-tall apple, bitten and then put back together, by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto to convey a meaning: harmony between nature an mankind.
May 3rd to 18th 2015, Piazza del Duomo, Milan
photo by di Gabriele Basilico – FAI
Sunday, May 3 at 10 am, at the opening event of "Via Lattea", the work has been shown to the citizens in the presence of Michelangelo Pistoletto, accompanied by a suggestive performance.
photo by Gabriele Basilico – FAI
From May the 3rd to May the 18th, 2015 Piazza del Duomo in Milan changes its face thanks to the "Third Paradise – The Apple Made Whole Again", a new work by Michelangelo Pistoletto with powerful visual and emotional impact, curated by Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto and made in collaboration with the FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, with the sponsorship and support of the City of Milan and the patronage of Milan Expo 2015.
photo by di Pierluigi Di Pietro
So says Michelangelo Pistoletto: "The symbol of the apple crosses the entire history we have behind us, starting from the bite, which is the detachment of mankind from nature and the origin of the artificial world that has grown up to the totalizing size of today. The Apple Made Whole Again is the entry into a new era in which the artificial world and the natural world are reunited producing a new planetary balance."
photo by Pierluigi Di Pietro
The work has been presented to the citizens Sunday, May 3 at 10 am, in the presence of Michelangelo Pistoletto, Andrea Carandini, President of the FAI, the city authorities and Michael Møller, Director of the United Nations in Geneva.
photo by Gabriele Basilico – FAI
The work has been completed by the volunteers of the FAI and Cittadellarte in an impressive collective performance; volunteers, using straw bales recovered from farms of Parco Agricolo Sud built around the apple the Third Paradise, which forms a wide seat available to those who will stop in Piazza del Duomo.
photo by Gabriele Basilico – FAI
photo by Gabriele Basilico – FAI
photo by Gabriele Basilico – FAI
photo by Gabriele Basilico – FAI
photo by Pierluigi Di Pietro
3 June – 31 October 2015, Parco Sempione, Milan
The work Third Paradise – The Apple Made Whole Again by Michelangelo Pistoletto, after the exhibition in Piazza Duomo, changes skin and finds a new location in the heart of Milan, at the Parco Sempione, facing the Palazzina Appiani, for the duration of Expo 2015 thanks to the support given for the construction site by Ferrarelle.
