Michelangelo Pistoletto
Leaving the ghetto of art

Michelangelo Pistoletto (I) in conversation with Charles Esche (NL/GB)


Discussion

Dates
28.9.2012

Details
10.00-11.30

Location
Camp: Black Cube
Graz

Series
Truth is concrete

Artists have to leave the ghetto of art: through his cittadellarte project, Michelangelo Pistoletto brings the arts into a productive integration, even synthesis with academic disciplines and business. For him “Art must go beyond the limitation of the object, of the so-called artistic product (while considering it to be of fundamental importance), in order to be active in every situation and place of planetary life. Art is responsible for taking on the role of a fundamental proposition of thought, namely being the spiritual foundation that informs common existence according to a global concept of being. Above all, artists must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavour people take on, at every level, from that of the “masses” to that of “command”.”

Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Michelangelo Pistoletto
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Charles Esche

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