Third Paradise in Exilles

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Project start: May 1, 2010

Project end: June 30, 2015

The garden of the Third Paradise is made with an inter-institutional collaboration, led by the Municipality of Exilles, which also sees the collaboration of the Unione dei Comuni Alta Valle di Susa, the SoprintendenzaBelle Arti e Paesaggio di Torino, the Department of Culture and Tourism, and the department responsible forSoil Defense and the Mountain with the Forestry and Nursery properties of the Piedmont Region.
The implementation of the ambitious project curated by the Consorzio Forestale Alta Valle Susa is the result of a wide platform of social actors in the area: ValSusaFilmfest, the three tourist consortia of the Alta Valle, thecultural volunteer associations, schools, accommodation operators, with the valuablecontribution of the Rotary Club Susa and Valsusa, the coordination of the Valle di Susa enhancement plan. Treasuresof Alpine Art and Culture and SusaCulture.
The Third Paradise will be the initial act of the new cultural programming of the Forte di Exilles curated by the Turin International Book Fair.
The project boasts institutional partnership with the MIUR, Regional School Office General Directoratefor the educational journey Cultivating Culture, developed bythe Education Department of the Castello di Rivoli, thanks to the Magnetto Foundation. The project, which seesthe students of the Norberto Rosa High School in Susa and Bussoleno as protagonists, is extended to secondary schools of the first andsecond grade in the Piedmont area.

The Master of Arte Povera Michelangelo Pistoletto, an internationally renowned artist,grants the Susa Valley the creation of a public artwork with the sign of his Third Paradise: the symbol of infinity, whose loops represent opposites (nature and artifice, good and evil...), with an additional central loop representing balance. "A sign that expresses the need to bring opposites closer together to create a third dimension: to unite diversities not to destroy them but to bring forth something that did not exist."

The multi-year project is born as a collective expression of rebirth, a path of socio-economic development of the Valley through the participation of a plurality of actors who share the experience.

It is structured in two different actions: on one side a large collective event that realizes a public artwork - a unique grand work of Land Art - in a symbolic place of the Susa Valley and the Piedmont Region with a collective action that will start from the gathering, on the other side an unprecedented educational project conceived in institutional partnership in collaboration with the MIUR Regional School Office General Directorate and addressed to secondary schools of the first and second grade in the Piedmont area.

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