La Bandiera del Mondo 1+1=3

On 20th December 2018 the artwork "La Bandiera del Mondo 1 + 1 = 3" will be presented for the first time at the Macro Asilo in Rome, in the presence of the artists Michelangelo Pistoletto and Angelo Savarese,

Artistic Concept
In a historical moment in which we are witness of a disintegration of the old models of territorial organization and power, the sense of inconvenience of citizens grows in view of a future in which national identities seem to vanish due to a process of globalization.
Local cultures, continuously contaminated by those of other countries because of continuous migrations taking place all over the planet, are subject to comparisons that often generate conflicts and acts of intolerance and violence. We are not able to respect the rights of others and we expect to build a better world in the name of peace.
The symbol of the Third Paradise by Michelangelo Pistoletto is a sign of balance, a gesture of sharing, an "open source" tool that gives everyone the opportunity to work together, each one contributing to the creation of an unique art work and where, even the role of the artist, is placed at the service of the community.
Each flag of the world represents a territorial specificity, with its own culture and a process of exclusive society development. Through the well-known symbol of the Third Paradise we enter into a dimension of evolution where there are no separations in which the sign of infinity leads us into a continuous reality without borders.

Angelo Savarese realizes 196 paintings representing the flags of as many nations and, placed in the trinamic sign of Pistoletto, establish an effective communication representing the concept of unity in the diversity. Each state of the World is part of an ensemble that would not exist without the existence of the single.
I exist because I can do something for You and You can do something for Me. You and Me together makeUs and in this philosophy of Pistoletto of 1 + 1 = 3, Angelo Savarese proposes a third dimension, a place of integration where conflicts between the global and the local find a point of balance in the Third Paradise.The art shape created by The Flag of the World confirms the concept that it is necessary to "love differences" to allow people to complete the work of humanization with a responsible and concerned action achieved with others.
Description of the Artwork
Composition of the symbol of the Third Paradise by Michelangelo Pistoletto through a wooden frame of mt. 18 x 8 receiving 196 canvas paintings by Angelo Savarese in mixed technique of cm. 40x40 each.
The first installation of the Flag of the World also involves the participation of a group of students from“Daniele Manin Institute” in Rome, who will help the artists in composing the first representation of the symbol at the Macro Asilo thus creating a form of absolutely pure, uncontrolled and spontaneous art.
It is with this intention that Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto promotes values and practices of democratic participation, such as the 17 Sustainable development goals promoted by the UN Agenda 2030 to transform our world.
Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella in 1933. He began to exhibit his work in 1955 and in 1960 he had his first solo show at Galleria Galatea in Turin. An inquiry into self-portraiture characterizes his early work. In the two-year period 1961-1962 made the first Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work, and open up perspective, reversing the Renaissance perspective that had been closed by the twentieth-century avant-gardes. These works quickly brought Pistoletto international acclaim, leading, in the sixties, to one-man shows in important galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. The Mirror Paintings are the foundation of his subsequent artistic output and theoretical thought.
In 1965 and 1966 he produced a set of works entitled Minus Objects, considered fundamental to the birth of Arte Povera, an art movement of which Pistoletto was an animating force and a protagonist. In 1967 he began to work outside traditional exhibition spaces, with the first instances of that “creative collaboration” he developed over the following decades by bringing together artists from different disciplines and diverse sectors of society. In 1975-76 he presented a cycle of twelve consecutive exhibitions, Le Stanze, at the Stein Gallery in Turin. This was the first of a series of complex, year-long works called “time continents”. Others are White Year (1989) and Happy Turtle (1992).
In 1978, in a show in Turin, Pistoletto defined two main directions his future artwork would take: Division and Multiplication of the Mirror and Art Takes On Religion. In the early eighties he made a series of sculptures in rigid polyurethane, translated into marble for his solo show in 1984 at Forte di Belvedere in Florence. From 1985 to 1989 he created the series of “dark” volumes called Art of Squalor. During the nineties, with Project Art and with the creation in Biella of Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto and the University of Ideas, he brought art into active relation with diverse spheres of society with the aim of inspiring and producing responsible social change. In 2003 he won the VeniceBiennale’s Golden Lion for Lifelong Achievement. In 2004 the University of Turin awarded him a laurea honoris causa in Political Science. On that occasion the artist announced what has become the most recent phase of his work, Third Paradise. In 2007, in Jerusalem, he received the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, “for his constantly inventive career as an artist, educator and activist whose restless intelligence has created prescient forms of art that contribute to fresh understanding of the world.”
In 2010 he wrote the essay The Third Paradise, published in Italian, English, French and German. In 2011 he was the artistic director of Evento 2011 – L'art pour une ré-évolution urbaine in Bordeaux. In 2012 he started promoting the Rebirth-day, first worldwide day of rebirth, celebrated every year on 21st December with initiatives taking place all around the world.
In 2013 the Louvre in Paris hosted his personal exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto, année un – le paradis sur terre. In this same year he received the Praemium Imperiale for painting, in Tokyo.
In 2014 the symbol of the Third Paradise was installed in the hall of the headquarters of the Council of the European Union in Bruxelles for the period of the Italian Presidency of the European Council. In May 2015 he received a degree honoris causa from the Universidad de las Artes of Havana in Cuba. In the same year he realizes a work of big dimensions, called Rebirth, situated in the park of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, headquarters of the UN.
Angelo Savarese.
Art in the life of Angelo Savarese has always been passion and has been trying to emerge since his young age and since a child, he was inspired by the great masters.
Savarese was born in Naples in 1967 and after a few years he moved to Rome, but it seems he has inherited the curiosity of things of the world from his native city, so the genetics of his past projects him into his Roman future.
In Rome he grows, he forms himself, he begins his artistic journey and it is here that he lives and works.
Savarese, a watchful observer and a man of great values, found the way to express himself with a complete personal artistic technique. Man a few words it would seem, but words flow into his mind in a harmonious way and are those he pours on the canvas, making them the effective background, where he then talks with colors, irregularly, abstractly and cleverly.
Savarese's works therefore appear as a mix of precision and disorder, where the precision of letters handwritten in embossment, defined by various techniques and elements, create a second layer on the canvas and become the unmistakable message of the work itself, informality instead, is reflected by the combination of colors placed or "thrown" on the canvas informally and materic as a final touch. The result is Art that narrates.... Savarese always wants to share, he wants to stop the moment, he wants to honor his words like of others, wants to be part of the world, wants to talk with his curious inner being.
The artist's future sees him involved in art projects rather than creating single works. Always concerned with social issues he uses his art with a new address, to create thematic projects that gather several similar works within the project itself, each with its message and value.
Flags is a project that the artist has been pursuing for many years with the goal of making all the flags of the world in a“Savarese style”, so the desire to connect it through art, understood as a vehicle of peace.
Mannequin, another recent art project related to issues such as loneliness, repression, sadness, suffering of the contemporary man, leads Savarese to dialogue with mannequins to which he gives an imprint of words, matter and colors in an attempt to humanize them: a clear cry of help to save the new generations from the dangers of this falsely globalized, technological and "wifi" world!  

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