Lectures, Marcel Fotter, Michelangelo Pistoletto - Wednesday, October 8, 2008 0:08 - 0 Comments

Michelangelo Pistoletto - Statement

The Third Paradise
2003

“What is the Third paradise? It is the fusion between the first and the second paradise.

The first is the paradise in which terrestrial life is completely regulated by nature’s intelligence.
The second is an Artificial Paradise; that which is developed by human intellect via a very slow process, which in the last few centuries has reached increasingly invasive dimensions.

This paradise is made up of artificial needs, artificial commodities, artificial pleasures, and of every other form of artificiality. A world that is completely and utterly artificial has been created, which continues to grow, consuming and deteriorating the natural planet. The danger of a tragic collision between these two spheres is by now very obvious. Continue…