The Third Paradise
Located on the ADM roof, The Third Paradise by Michael Pistoletto is a living artwork that represents an ideal balance between human activities and nature
Year: 2019
Material: Red Sessile Joyweed
Dimensions: 4660 x 2010 cm
Location: School of Art, Design and Media, Sloping grass roof - Click to see on NTU Maps
The Third Paradise or Il Terzo Paradiso by world-renowned Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto is a living art installation made of Red Sessile Joyweed plant, an edible local shrub that is also made into herbal tea.
The artwork adorns the curving green roof of the NTU Art, Design and Media (ADM) building, a conceptual artwork that comprises three large connecting circles spanning 41 meters at its longest length. It uses a symbol Pistoletto created that plays on the mathematical infinity sign, with two smaller circles on opposing ends representing nature’s paradise and an artificial paradise.
The Third Paradise was unveiled in 2019 to commemorate the launch of Pistoletto's exhibition 'The Third Paradise - Between Obverse and Reverse' held at Mucciacia Gallery. The permanent installation on the ADM rooftop is one of many works in The Third Paradise series.
Read the official press release for more.
Artist: Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian artist born in 1933 in Biella. He is renowned for his Mirror Paintings – artworks made of human-sized mirrors that have been displayed in major galleries and museums across Europe and the United States since the 1960s. During the 1990s, Pistoletto brought art into active relation with diverse spheres of society with the aim of inspiring and producing responsible social change, creating the non-profit Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto among many initiatives, and in 2004, announced the most recent phase of his work The Third Paradise.
Bio adapted from pistoletto.it
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