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ENGLISH VERSION AGAINST THE DEVASTATION

by the residents. “The construction is located Rufino Institute into a type of Inhotim, full of Easily visual and theoretically complex, as he
on the limit between a stretch of Atlantic Forest works by artists. “Everything that is there has himself defines it, Terzo Paradiso has already
and the highest part of the garden. The space to go through my poetics. During the pandemic been designed, danced, played, planted, in
was built between trees that recovered from I did a lot of work and now I’m going to do various topographies: seas, rivers, squares,
decades of careless and burnt cuts, and are an expedition through the terrain, through designed and even printed on an Italian
now quite leafy”. The total area of the land lies other itineraries, which will generate the spaceship. Now, in great size, it reaches the

between the coastal board and the estuary of Phantasmagoria show, as part of the Ontologies bucolic and mountainous landscape of the
the Sanhauá River, bordering the Mata do Xem- project, which will be exhibited in March at 19th Festival Arte Serrinha, idealized by Fabio
Xem State Park, whose ruins of a century weir fama (Fábrica de Arte Marcos Amaro), in Itu, Delduque in Bragança Paulista, which takes
19 are inside the property. in a shed that is being restored to receive it ”. place virtually until November, with the theme
Choosing the Institute’s location triggered a In the open scenario of the Instituto Rufino, he Art and Science. The installation reinforces
pioneering thought in Rufino, which visited many will continue the artistic residencies, which have Pistoletto’s idea that land is the landscape for
ready-made sites, with layers of stories from its already happened on a small scale, will open a new level of civilization. The curatorship is
former owners, something that did not interest to scholars in the field of botany, zoology and by Marcello Dantas and Catarina Duncan, and
him. When he found a degraded, barren land, ethnology who want to share knowledge and the installation was done under the guidance
a polluted and blocked stream, he decided to strategic thoughts on this scale. “We operate of Pistoletto. “We were unable to involve the
buy it. The deepest impulse of his utopia came close to the concept of residences in rural areas, population or students on account of Covid-19.
from the encounter with this environmental because despite being located in the city, we But now the public will be able to see the work
chaos, in 1984. “It cheered me up, I wanted to are far from the urban perimeter”. In any case, made with rocks from the region throughout
save these hectares by starting from scratch. there is no turning back, as he says. Today the year, as it is already part of the festival’s
My father, who grew up in the sugar mill, when the Rufino Institute is a reality, a heritage that permanent collection.
he saw the scenery was horrified and said that must also have a social return and that is one
there would not even grow nettles ”. In that sense, of its challenges. Conversation in havana
Rufino had to deal with expectations all the time, There are projects that bewitch and act like
but this idea of disagreement was more of a arte serrinha festival | miChelangelo pistoletto hallucinogenic substances in their authors. I
motivating provocation. Now, after many years [pages 46 to 49] talk to Pistoletto at the Raquel hotel in Havana in
of constant work, research and consultations “TERZO PARADISO”, 2015, accompanied by his wife, Maria, a beacon
with specialists, the soil has not only been reborn OBSESSION WITH of his life. Quiet, excited, he shows signs that he
but is very rich. Nature responded to its efforts, would do Terzo Paradiso in the interior of São
transformed itself, recreated the microclimate A NEW WORLD Paulo, so I keep the interview for this occasion.
and everything is exuberant. The land art of the Italian Michelangelo In the Cuban capital, his work takes on other
“My earliest memories of a solitary and silent Pistoletto finds a permanent place forms because it brings up a control mechanism.
conversation with nature were at my grandfather’s in the 19th Festival Arte Serrinha, He had just finished the performance without
in Bragança Paulista
mill. I didn’t live there, but I went every weekend government authorization, involving dozens of
and spent the entire vacation. The sensory By leonor amarante fishing boats, under the coordination of artist
memories I bring from childhood are more from Kcho, curator Laura Salas, both Cubans, and
the mill than from the city”. Gradually he got closer Can art reDireCt the worlD and propose Lorenzo Fiaschi, of the Italian gallery Continua,
to natural history, influenced by the botanical new ways of living? Michelangelo Pistoletto with a branch in Havana.
books of his engineer father, full of illustrations. has been dedicated for almost ten years to Without consulting the Cuban bureaucracy, he
“I started to collect plants, fossils, which made the ambitious project Terzo Paradiso (Terceiro convinces fishermen to make the sign of Terzo
me almost a child naturalist. I was also curious Paraíso), supported by a critical repertoire of Paradiso float in the Bay of Havana. Knowing
about the origin of popular plant names and why mathematical terminologies to develop an the complexity of the situation, I ask how he
scientific names ”. Acting between science and action respecting nature, urban spaces and managed to intervene in an area called “coastal
delirium, he went after tamarind seeds collected man, placing art at the center of a transformation water”, the sovereign territory of the State, a
from the yard of the poet Augusto dos Anjos. He responsible social. law in force in any country. “Fishermen must
traveled to Salvador in search of the cocoa fruit It would be a mistake to imagine that the have the right, like any citizen, to speak out.
of a tree planted by Pierre Verger. “Today I am proposal revolves around itself. On the contrary, Terzo Paradiso is a work of open, community,
pleased to produce, through my father’s insight, it contaminates other circuits, opens the field of planetary action in which everyone is an author
small bars of Verger chocolate”. reflections and narratives through artistic and and protagonist regardless of their country, race,
Already trained in paleontology, his look educational activities involving the population politics or religion ”. Anyway, Pistoletto executed
was refined with method, as he says. But the of the place where it is installed, causing social the work and tested a model of how to exhibit
Institute’s terrain is self-explanatory, freedom consequences. performance events in a prohibited area. Havana
there runs wild with landscaping that respects The concept of the project begins with is one of the embassies of Terzo Paradiso, as are
the will of plants, very close to tropical nature. Pìstoletto’s gesture of taking the mathematical San Gimignano, Beijing and Quebec.
“Burle Marx introduced this concept in several sign of infinity as a starting point. Terzo The new millennium warns that the planet is
projects. He put the plants that climbed over Paradiso is the fusion of the first circle of the at risk. Terzo Paradiso practices two recurring
the others forming a mass without shame, it symbol, which he says is integrated with nature, issues, recycling and environmental sustainability.
was not something planned like the European with the second, immersed in artificial needs, The project’s reproductive function is in the
garden, especially the French”. for both to form the third that represents the by-products generated in seminars, debates,
The artist does not intend to turn the José new humanity. workshops, residences, festivals, in the defense

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