For six months the installation will remain in the main atrium of the European Council
by Emanuele Bonini
Michelangelo Pistoletto will be the artist who will represent Italy during the six month of the rotating presidency of the EU. The three-looped infinity sign will be placed in the main atrium of Justus Lipsius building. It will remain on the roof for the entire duration of the Italian presidency. The masterpiece, whose title is "New Infinity Sign", will be put in the European Council main building with the aim of representing the integration of the different soul of Europe in a lasting political project.
Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella the 25th of June 1933. Painter, action artist and sculptor, he is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera, a modern art movement based on the principle of a return to simple objects and messages. During his career he became a powerful conceptual artist, and in 2003 Pistoletto wrote The Third Paradise manifesto and draws its symbol, the three-looped infinity sign, known as "New infinity sign". The basic idea of the Third Paradise is the overcoming of the current worldwide existing conflict between the two polarities of nature and artifice. The Third Paradise is symbolically represented by a reconfiguration of the mathematical infinity sign. In the “New Infinity Sign” three circles are drawn: the two opposite circles signify nature and artifice; the middle one is the conjunction of the two and represents the generative womb of the Third Paradise. “New Infinity Sign” is a very famous installation: in 2013 it was exhibited at Louvre museum.
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| Pistoletto's "new infinity sign" |
Michelangelo Pistoletto will be the artist who will represent Italy during the six month of the rotating presidency of the EU. The three-looped infinity sign will be placed in the main atrium of Justus Lipsius building. It will remain on the roof for the entire duration of the Italian presidency. The masterpiece, whose title is "New Infinity Sign", will be put in the European Council main building with the aim of representing the integration of the different soul of Europe in a lasting political project.
Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella the 25th of June 1933. Painter, action artist and sculptor, he is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera, a modern art movement based on the principle of a return to simple objects and messages. During his career he became a powerful conceptual artist, and in 2003 Pistoletto wrote The Third Paradise manifesto and draws its symbol, the three-looped infinity sign, known as "New infinity sign". The basic idea of the Third Paradise is the overcoming of the current worldwide existing conflict between the two polarities of nature and artifice. The Third Paradise is symbolically represented by a reconfiguration of the mathematical infinity sign. In the “New Infinity Sign” three circles are drawn: the two opposite circles signify nature and artifice; the middle one is the conjunction of the two and represents the generative womb of the Third Paradise. “New Infinity Sign” is a very famous installation: in 2013 it was exhibited at Louvre museum.
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