Terzo Paradiso Ambassadors

more about cHURCH OF MONIKA/ Terzo Paradiso event

PAOLO NALDINI:

Director of Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto and UNIDEE.

FROM PANDEMIC TO PAN-DEMOPRAXY

Paolo Naldini, director of Cittadellarte, launches a choral initiative of restarting (rebirth) after the pandemic. It is primarily addressed to the network of Rebirth / Third Paradise Ambassadors, but also to all those who are active in their community with practices and thinking of sustainable prosperity. Inspired by Subsonica sound track dedicated to the Third Paradise, the initiative asks: “How will you live. How you will learn. How will you communicate. How will you express yourself. How will you do everything you do?” In order to clarify the questions, the text below offers two ideas, two algorithms: the sense of balance (represented by the vision and the symbol of the Third Paradise) and the art of Demopraxy. “If we still don’t know where exactly this virus came from and how it spread – so Naldini – we can decide where it will direct us.” This assumption of direct responsibility for the daily practice of our life is the lesson of the pandemic and therefore it is called: Pan-demopraxy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9TGv5fcLw&t=171s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkHJhIwWR4

SAVERIO TERUZZI:

bio

LAURA SALAS REDONDO:

Laura Salas Redondo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1988. She is studying for her Masters in Art History at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She curated the projects of Daniel Buren, Nikhil Chopra, Anish Kapoor, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Shilpa Gupta for the 12th Havana Biennial in 2015. That same year, he founded the Rebirth Forum and its resulting annual laboratories (Cantiere), a trans-disciplinary project by Michelangelo Pistoletto in Cuba. She was the co-curator of this artist’s personal exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Cuba in November 2016. She is the founder of the editorial project Cantiere, a publication of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto that is being developed in Cuba to accompany the Third Paradise project. Salas Redondo collaborates with serial publications such as ArtNexus and published, together with French curator Jérôme Sans in 2019, the book “Cuba Talks » with a series of interviews, texts and images of twenty-eight contemporary Cuban artists.

AURORA VERNAZZANI:

videomaker and painter with Master Degrees in Social anthropology and documentary filmmaking.

Currently passionate about videoarchives, ghosts, holograms and abstract painting. Living in Marseille.

The pic attached is a recent painting called Oracolo 2 inspired by the microscopical observation of bacteria. It isn’t directly Third Paradise related though. Nowadays my reflection about postpandemic Third Paradise (and therefore my actions!) can be summed up like this: Don’t waste, be kind, go vegan 🙂

ALESSIA SILIGARDI:

I’m Alessia Siligardi. I’m teaching fashion in high school.

I’m one of the ambassadors of the Third Paradise from 2012 when started the first Rebirth-day on 21th December.

In these pictures you can see how the Third Paradise symbol is perfect for all the ages because in these years I have been working with children from nursery to adults.

I think the symbol is really immediate and easy to understand for all people. This is precious because you can transmit important values about our society.

In this particular moment of Corona virus and pandemic this symbol is perfect because shows how artifice can live with nature without destroy it. Thinking about this concept is also thinking about the future for our society.

GIOVANNA FELLUGA:

I am Ambassador for the city of Trento (Italy)

The link between me and Cittadellarte is RAM radioartemobile, (Mario Pieroni and Doras Stiefelmeier) the organization I have been collaborating with Michelangelo and Maria since many years. www.radioartmobile.it

In 2011 I founded AtemporaryStudio together with Samanta Punis and I am the curator and cultural manager in the studio. My focus is the relation between art and enterprises to develop projects with an attention on the social environment.

You can find more about me and my research on our journal and website.

www.atemporaryjournal.com, www.atemporarystudio.com

RAYMUNDO SESMA:

Multidisciplinary Mexican artist, lives and works between Milan and Mexico since 1980. He is the founder of the House of Culture. His works are in collections such as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, Paris; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Museum of Modern Art, Mexico and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. He has twice participated in the International Art Exhibition of the Venice in 1986 and 1993. In 1993 he created Advento, A.C. with the concept of “social architecture”, the purpose of which is to develop a series of actions and objects related to society, contemporary art and design.

ALEJANDRO VÁSQUEZ:

I am Alejandro Vásquez, ambassador of Terzo Paradiso, director of Art Gallery at Centro Colombo Americano and part of El puente_lab cultural Activation laboratory in Medellín Colombia.

here some links

https://colomboworld.com/cultura/galeria-de-arte/

https://www.facebook.com/elpuentelab/

PIERRE GUILLET DE MONTHOUX:

Pierre is currently Director of Stockholm School of Economics Art Initiative (https://www.hhs.se/en/Outreach/sse-initiatives/art-initiative/😉 He is editing a series on “Experiments of Art and Capitalisms” with Sternberg Press Berlin and is engaged in research and education as Professor of Philosophy and Management.

pgm@hhs.se;

NORA RUZSICS:

born 1974 in Hungary, lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria, 1997 Diploma at the Academy of fine Arts in Vienna, MS for Sculpture of M. Pistoletto, MS for New Media of Peter Kogler

2005 Diploma at Spiral(e), education for Contemporary Dance/Theater in Vienna.

Michelangelo Pistoletto and Nora Ruzsics met on October

11th 2016 at the Botanical Garden in Graz to accomplish

Paradise pAct, under the sign of Terzo Paradiso. It was a

kind of handover-ceremony between generations, between

artists who carry the same values. Watch the film.

ArtEmbassy traveled 8 months along the migration line from

Columbia through Central America to California in search of

the True, the Good and the Beautiful, and collected signals on

the way; films, photos, interviews, paintings and drawings.

ROSA JIJÓN:

Ecuador

Cultural Secretary at IILA-Organizzazione internazionale italo-latino americana

Artist, cultural operator, activist.

Terzo Paradiso Ambassador since 2015

SAVINO TARSITANO:

Italian artist, co-founder of the Institute of Art & Culture Espronceda, Barceloa: http://www.espronceda.net,

and International coordination of the Peace International Project Kids-Guernica: http://www.kids-guernica.org

In 2015 with a professor, now ambassador from Tokyo we create and support a new collaboration with ThirdParadise and Kids-Guernica in realizing almost 30 new canvases with the sign of Third Paradise in different part of the world, from Nepal, Cuba, Japan, India, Europe, USA:

Here is one example, curated together with Takuya, Saverio and others the canvas between Nagasaki, Cuba and Geneve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeME16Glg3g

YUVAL AVITAL:

My hands are quite full with a new global participatory (and extremely demopraxic!) online dance and voice artwork titled “Human Signs”, involving till today over 100 artists worldwide, and premiering weekly on my youtube channel with different ensembles each tuesday at 7.30 pm CET.

ALEJANDRO VÁSQUEZ SALINAS:

left to right – Juan Esteban Sandoval, Cittadellarte office art director, Mariangela Aponte, with whom we were cooperating in Terzo Pardiso forum at La Havana, and Alejandro Vásquez Salinas.

Alejandro Vásquez Salinas, Medellin 1979. Master of Fine Arts, Utrecht School of Arts, The Netherlands, obtained his degree in visual arts from the University of Antioquia in 2003. Winner of the Visual Arts category in the “Referentes” Awards for Art and culture 2018, awarded by the Medellin’s municipality. He is co-founder and member of the cultural corporation El puente_lab, cultural activation laboratory; through which he has participated in various projects and workshops with international artists in the city of Medellín; and several exhibitions in Italy, Austria, Lithuania, Turkey and at the XIII Havana Biennial. In 2004 he participated in an artistic residence UNIDEE Fondazione Pistoletto University of Ideas in Biella Italy, and has continued to cooperate with the institution in design and art projects. Vásquez’s work has been developing since 2003 taking part in numerous exhibitions throughout the country, including the Regional Artists Salon, Curatorship: “Investments + Art + Exchanges + Transactions”, Medellín and Armenia. The 42 National Artists Salon in Barranquilla and Cartagena. “surreptitious Covert Stories” In the Banasta Gallery. In the exhibition “Antioquias”, Diversity and Imaginaries of Identity, Museo de Antioquia.

He is currently Director of the Paul Bardwell Gallery of Contemporary Art at the Centro Colombo Americano and is in charge of the Deseartepaz program of the same institution.

Karma Barnes and Ekarasa Doblanovic:

Karma Barnes is a New Zealand born artists based on the east coast of Australia. Karma’s work examines how we are formed and informed by relationship through the inter- sections of nature and culture. Collaboration and community are key as her participatory practices build shared experiences in the making. Karma’s work is inspired by her deep fascination with the endless cycles of life and death, creation and destruction and how we are shaped and changed by our internal and external relationships, elements and impermanence. Karma is the co-director of Imagine the Land Project with Ekarasa Doblanovic, the project works to cultivate relationships between people, art and nature through the use of participatory art practices, community and public art presentations. The project has engaged over 10,000 people in collaborative art-making within public art exhibitions, workshops and public arts events to produce large scale site-specific installations. Projects have included The Museum of Contemporary Art Rome (2019), Te Uru – West Auckland Regional Gallery (NZ 2016, 14), YWCA National Child Protection Launch (NSW, 2016) The Bhoomi Festival (New Delhi, 2015), The Wallace Gallery (NZ 2012), The Wellington Museum of Land & Sea (NZ 2011) and The Villa de Leyva Museum (Colombia 2010).

Imagine the Land

TAKUYA KANEDA:

Artist, Professor of Art Education at Otsuma Women’ s University, Tokyo

Born in 1955. He studied art history and aesthetics at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. He received Ph. D. in the field of art education. As an illustrator and writer, he published several picture books to introduce different cultures. He is one of the co-founders of P3578 art project www.p3578.org . Recently, he is exploring the possibility of sustainable development through art in a remote mountain village of Nepal.

He has been conducting various art projects for children in different countries as the representative of Kids’ Guernica International Peace Mural project. www.kids-guernica.org . With an Italian artist, Savina Tarsitano, he organized many collaborative art workshops between Kids’ Guernica and Third Paradise.

SARAH REVOLTELLA:

Sarah Revoltella is an artist, director and writer. In 2019 she is present with four works during the Venice Biennale. With Ca ‘Foscari Science Gallery presents the work Management of tourism flows in Venice, at the Ospedaletto complex, Stars and Conflicts a large tapestry, on the relationship between countries at war and black holes, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio. At the “Spazio Thetis” in Venice during Friends collective she produced Labyrinth for cats a permanent installation curated by Daniele Capra. During the collective “Notturno Più” of The pool NYC gallery, she realized the ceramic installation Polarization, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio. The work “Polarisation” questioning the changes that influence part of the anthropological structures of the contemporary world. In the same year 2019 she does solo exhibition “You could say that I am a dreamer” curated by Claudia Melis and Chiara Peru at the Nivola Museum in Orani and presents the Ethical coin at the Macc Museum in Calasetta starting a project of post monetary economy in collaboration with several international economist. In 2018 she participated in the residence of the artist BoCS-Art, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio and realized the theatrical performance The Birth of Revolution on the theatrical mechanisms of politics at the Macro Museum in Rome. During the 57th Venice Art Biennale, at the Arsenale Nord / Tesa 105, in collaboration with Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, she realizes the international exhibitions I fight curated by Olga Gambari involving: USA, Russia, Turkey, France, Pakistan. The work will be exposed during the exhibition for the centenary of the Great War, in collaboration with Third Rebirth-Pistoletto Foundation I Fight at the Central Archive of the State of Rome together with Mimmo Paladino and Michelangelo Pistoletto. On several occasions she presented her work at “The Others”, during Artissima in Turin. In 2018 he published Antimony (ed. Stampa Alternativa) a novel set in the near future which deals with post-monetary economy and an anthology of tales “Macedonia” (Ed. Zel 2010). In 2013 she wrote and directed the play / theatrical installation The cage. In 2012 she wrote and directed the film The broken circle (actually in post – production). She collaborated with various exhibition spaces including: Casabianca, Farmacia Wurmkos, Spazio Macao in Milan, Spazio Silos in Venice.