The Art Newspaper: Excavations for Magazzino Italian Art’s expansion allowed the centre to finally create a rare Michelangelo Pistoletto Land Art piece

The outdoor installation, conceived in 2003 but never executed until now, was unveiled on the Italian artist’s 90th birthday.

Magazzino Italian Art, the museum and research centre in Cold Spring, New York, has opened Welcome to New York!, a survey show by Michelangelo Pistoletto to celebrate the artist’s 90th birthday. In addition, the museum unveiled a permanent land piece, Terzo paradiso, that has come to fruition after 20 years of patiently waiting for circumstances that match the ethos of the conceptual work and reflects the decades-long relationship between the artist and Magazzino’s founders, Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu.

Terzo paradiso (Third paradise) is a manifesto that takes the form of an infinity symbol with an extra circle in its centre. The circles on opposite ends represent the natural and the artificial, with the central sphere balancing the two and symbolising rebirth and a sustainable future. Olnick and Spanu became ambassadors of Terzo paradiso shortly after it was conceived in 2003, and Magazzino followed in 2017, but they had not found the right moment to give it physical form.