Cai Weidong interviews Michelangelo Pistoletto with the help of interpreter Lin Yi-Chun. Amongst other things he questions Michelangelo about the role of religion and spirituality in his work, his opinion of Asian art and a clarification of the myth of the Third Paradise.
We had dinner with Michelangelo and Maria Pistoletto and Germano Celant (critic, art historian and senior curator for the Guggenheim Museum, New York and Fondazione Prada)
Germano Celant is credited with the invention of the term, “Arte Povera” in 1968, a new art movement of Italian artists which had great success internationally and included the artists; Boetti, Merz, Zorio, Pistoletto, Penone, Fabro, Kounellis, Pascali. The movement was also theorised by Celant in numerous exhibitions and publications.
We ate together outside and talked into the night…
Dinner in the Cittadellarte Courtyard
Michelangelo Pistoletto showed us around his collection of works and explained, amongst other things, the evolution in his work from painting to mirrored pieces and after the division and multiplication of mirrors how he developed his art sign and also how his concept of the third paradise evolved…click on thumbnails below for a better view:
This morning a meeting with Michelangelo and the residents, with introductions to projects and some discussion, later he will show us around some of his artworks here at the Fondazione.
All residents will present their work during the next week or so and their proposals for the next 4 months work, we began with Eduardo Cachucho, who comes from a multidisciplinary background of architecture, graphics and video.
Ekaterina Kravtsova, experienced in various fields of graphic arts and film/photography
also presented.
