Sede del Terzo Paradiso
1st July, after the conference "Arte e scienza" at 8 pm delle ore 20
Minimum Prize awarded to El Puente_lab

 

The Minimum Prize is a prize placed at the minimum level compared to the ones destined to big personalities who have dedicated their lives to the peace or the civil progress cause.
The Minimum Prize wants to be at the basis of the research, the incentive and the motive of a process aiming at the values of new civilization perspectives as an objective. It is a starting rather than an achievement award. It is an acknowledgement celebrating who promotes a responsible social transformation.
It is meant as a primary relationship among people producing a big change in human civilization through the interaction of single units. Minimum like an embryo, like a principle generating a new society, like an access key to an evolutionary stage where creativity and human science find ways to live with the intelligence of nature.
This year at the 11th edition, the prize is awarded to El Puente_lab and Juan E. Sandoval.

Motivation
El Puente_lab is a laboratory of cultural activation, a platform for artistic production operating in Medellin (Colombia), whose objective is to create communication bridges between art and the inhabitants, to face together the concrete problems they experience in everyday life. The projects developed use artistic creation as an instrument to activate cultural dynamics contributing to education through a direct participation, to communication through sharing and to a conscious responsibility of the processes of urban and social transformation.
El Puente_lab is formed by artists who have participated in the residency programme UNIDEE – University of Ideas and was founded by Juan E. Sandoval, artist and director of Cittadellarte’s Art Office.
El Puente_lab, starting from its name meaning connection and conjunction, fully responds to the spirit proper of the principle of Trinamics: the art of creating an interaction between two different, even opposite, elements generating a third original phenomenon, which results from a harmonic, yet dynamic and energetically vibrant, balance between the two initial elements.

 

     

Sottotetto
Porte-Uffizi
Exhibition by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Cittadellarte, c a l c

The exhibition Porte - Uffizi, opening on 1st July, is set up in one of the most suggestive and special spaces in Cittadellarte: the former drying area in the attic.
The work on display is articulated in frames of rooms and wooden doors showing the names of the different Cittadellarte’s Offices. Each Office carries out its own activity concerning a specific area of the social system and they all aim at triggering an ethical and sustainable change, acting both on a global and local scales. The path leading to the origin of Porte - Uffizi starts in 1995, when the exhibition Le porte di Palazzo Fabroni, curated by Bruno Corà and Michelangelo Pistoletto; In 1997, the Luigi Pecci Museum in Prato hosted the exhibition Habitus, Abito, Abitare. Progetto Arte. This experience led to the exhibition Porte - Uffizi, realized for the first time in 2003 at the MuKHA in Antwerp and subsequently installed on the island of San Servolo in the context of the 2005 Venice Biennale. In that occasion the writings on the doors put in relationship different artistic, economic and political disciplines. The Offices currently active in Cittadellarte are Art, Education, Ecology, Economics, Politics, Spirituality, Production, Work, Communication, Architecture, Fashion and Nourishment, and the new setup of the exhibition will include doors which, thanks to double faced writings, interconnect the different rooms. The visitor can therefore walk across a spatial representation of the philosophy of Cittadellarte, which in the last 18 years has been operatively bringing the artistic intervention into every sector of civil society, with the aim of contributing in responsibly and effectively directing the profound and momentous changes in progress.

 

Sede del Terzo Paradiso
Selvatica Scientifica
Pistoletto's Reintegrated Apple and ten scientific projects to recreate the integrity of nature.
Exhibition curated by Cittadellarte's Art Office
In the context of Selvatica, arte e natura in festival



The exhibition Selvatica Scientifica, in Cittadellarte running till the end of the year, centred around sustainability and Pistoletto’s work “The Reintegrated Apple”, dialogues with both the themes of education and awareness raising, and with the Terme Culturali, offering itself as a “cultural treatment” to elaborate a vision of the world in which science assumes a leading role in the reintegration of nature.

 

Museo del Presente
Terme Culturali 
AMACARIUM
Installation curated by Cittadellarte's Art Office



In 2015, Cittadellarte launched an innovative initiative in the context of the fruition of culture: the Terme Culturali. Cittadellarte’s whole structure has become a place dedicated to the care and development of the sensibility that art and culture reactivate and reinvigorate. The Terme Culturali are a space where to take care of one’s own mind and primary creative power; “creating is human”, has synthetized Michelangelo Pistoletto.
Through the Terme Culturali, Cittadellarte offers visitors a space where to massage and warm up the muscles of creativity and this way reactivate one’s own creative dimension, through which to express one’s autonomy and to rediscover the deep roots of responsibility for what one thinks and therefore does.

 

Michelangelo Pistoletto's permanent exhibition
Before the Mirror
Exhibition by Michelangelo Pistoletto



With a self-portrait Pistoletto began his exhibition career, in 1955, at the Circolo degli Artisti in Turin, where his father had been accustomed to present his works. Between 1956 and 1958 Michelangelo painted large-scale self-portraits in a thick, abstract idiom. In these paintings the face occupied the entire surface of the canvas. In this period Pistoletto rents an attic in via Bava in Turin to paint and to study contemporary artists, focusing on his need to find a personal answer to existential questions he sees expressed in the different artistic trends. In 1957 he made two self-portraits, Priest and Saint, large works in which the canvas was no longer filled by the face, but also bore references to Christian iconography.

 

Museo del Presente
The Embassies of the Third Paradise
Installation curated by Cittadellarte's Art Office



The exhibition intends to narrate, through photographic installations, the projects realized by the Embassies of the Third Paradise in the last twelve months. The Ambassadors have been able to create opportunities for citizens and local communities to get involved in the interventions carried out in the “jurisdictions” of each Embassy in order to raise awareness about themes like the respect for the environment, energy sustainability and a correct use of resources.

 

Geographies of Transformation
Exhibition curated by Cittadellarte's Art Office 

 

Viaggio nella Geografia del Cambiamento
Art, journalism and local activism for a positive transformation of society
Exhibition curated by Roberto Vietti (Piemonte che cambia)



From 1st July 2016 the exhibition Geographies of Change is enriched by the narration of a path carried out in the Biellese itself: Biellese in Transizione and Italia Che Cambia’s journey in the geography of change. The transition is a cultural movement engaged in ferrying our industrialized society out of the current economic model deeply based on a vast availability of low cost oil and on the logics of consumption of the resources to a new sustainable model not depending on oil and characterized by a high level of resilience and connection among people.
Faces of Change, a photographic and documentary exhibition of the faces of people already striving for a sustainable and ethical transformation of our society, focusing on the Biellese territory in particular.

 

Galleria Nova Civitas
Art for smart sustainable cities
Exhibition curated by Juan Esteban Sandoval
research project: STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen) 
in collaboration with United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Housing and Land Management Unit

from 1st July to 31st December 2016



The exhibition includes some of the researches that Cittadellarte has invited STEALTH.unlimited to develop in the last few years, now become an essential part of the activities that Cittadellarte has dedicated to these issues intensifying a programme of study and research, intervention, on-site experimentations and of sharing with the rest of the world.

 

Sala UNIDEE 
500per1000 - Artists sponsor of Thought 
Exhibition curated by Cittadellarte's Art Office

from 1st July to 31st December 2016



The artists taking part in the exhibition have decided to pledge their works to support UNIDEE, not only as mentors for future activities, but also making themselves available to guarantee grants to participate in the programme itself. Such a commitment is carried out through 500per1000, whose works are entrusted to Cittadellarte to be displayed and offered for sale to the public, half of the selling price (500 per 1000, or 50%) is then conferred to the artist who realized the work, while the other half is destined to a fund which covers the costs of participating in the programme.

 

Sala UNIDEE 
Politics of Affinities. Experimentations between Art, Education and Politics 
Exhibition curated by Silvia Franceschini

from 1st July to 31st December 2016



The experiences present in the exhibition illustrate experimental pedagogical programmes in which thought and critique have become a single form of direct action on reality. Through methodologies of radical pedagogy, militant research and institutional activism, the idea of classroom is redefined as a “democratic space”. The room turns into a laboratory in which to rewrite the social contract.

 

Sala delle Colonne 
Bank of the Migrating Germplasm 
Exhibition by Leone Contini, curated by Cecilia Guida and Juan Esteban Sandoval 
in collaborazion with Let Eat Bi 

from 1st July to 31st December 2016

 

 

The Bank of the Migrating Germplasm is a collection of migrating seeds present on the national territory. The aim of this living archive is the heritage of an asset of biodiversity that is generally perceived in negative terms both by ordinary people and in “agro-culinary politics”, in contrast with the ancient varieties presumed “ours”.