Michelangelo Pistoletto - Le Troisième Paradis - 2011

French edition of Il Terzo Paradiso, published by Marsilio in Italy in 2010.
Copy with dedication to art critic Fiorella (Minervino) signed Michelangelo by the author.

Michelangelo Pistoletto - painter and sculptor born in Biella in 1933 - wrote the artistic manifesto of the Third Paradise in 2003. His symbol is a reconfi guration of the mathematical infinity sign drawn in the sand. Between the two adjacent circles, taken to signify the two opposite poles of nature and artifice, a central third circle is inserted, to represent the generative womb of a new humanity, the ideal overcoming of the destructive conflict in which nature and artifice find themselves in today’s society.

"It is the fusion between the first and the second paradise. The first is the paradise in which life on earth is totally governed by nature. The second is the artificial paradise, developed by human intelligence through a process that has today reached global proportions. The project of the third paradise consists in guiding artifice, i.e., science, technology, art, culture and politics to restore life to the Earth. The third paradise is the new myth that leads everyone to assume personal responsibility in this epochal moment. With the new infinity sign three circles are drawn: the central one represents the generative womb of the third paradise".
(Michelangelo Pistoletto)

Three small scratches on the front cover and a dent on the lower edge of the same.