On the Cathedral of Noto, Pistoletto's Third Paradise: project starts to enhance ancient traditions

Inaugurated on August 5, Born in Italy - Travel and Joy, a cultural project conceived by Federica Borghi and Alessia Montani and realized by M’AMA.ART and Icons Productions in collaboration with Sistema Museale Iblei and Museo dell’Anima, under the patronage of the Ministry of Economic Development. The project aims to investigate the ongoing dialogue between the ancient artistic and craft traditions of the territory and contemporary art, in all its forms. A multidisciplinary project aimed at investigating the country’s artisanal, artistic, anthropological and agricultural territorial richness with a fresh look at the recovery of ancient crops from the Mediterranean area.

Internationally renowned artists will be invited to discuss the value of recovering ancient traditions and crafts, rereading the past with the languages of the present, from analog to digital and augmented reality.

Born in Italy - Travel and Joy thus kicks off in the summer of 2021 from Noto, with the intention of launching a traveling project that over the next two years will touch other cities in Italy and abroad, exalting their different territorial excellences.

A visual installation will be projected on Noto Cathedral: a digital reworking of Michelangelo Pistoletto ’s Third Paradise curated by Federica Borghi with Icons Productions.

The former Cassonello barracks, the Parco dell’Anima, an agro-cultural oasis near the Vendicari reserve, the Palazzolo Acreide Museum Exhibition Center of Noble Traditions, home of the Museo dell’Anima, will exhibit until Nov. 5, 2021, site-specific works and installations by Accademia Aracne, Battaglini-Pacino, Federica Borghi, Toni Campo, Titti Garelli, Irem Incedayi, Julia Krahn, Giovanna Lysy, Sara Lovari, MaBe, Chicco Margaroli, Marianna Masciolini, Nasilowska-Russo, Domenico Pellegrino, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Franco Politano, Mariagrazia Pontorno, Giulio Rigoni, and Paola Romano. A review made possible thanks to the collaboration of Cetty Bruno, director of the Iblei museum network system, and Titti Zabert Colombo, director of the noble traditions section of the Museum of the Soul. In these spaces it will be possible to admire contemporary art creations and attend artistic performances that will create a dialogue between local traditional knowledge and the languages of contemporary art.

In this key, through Born in Italy - Travel and Joy, the valorization of traditional knowledge and techniques wants to become a tool to build, in a conscious way, a future oriented to a project of ecological and human sustainability.

On the Cathedral of Noto, Pistoletto's Third Paradise: project starts to enhance ancient traditions

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