I paesi del Mediterraneo - Amare le differenze Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, December 2007 - February 2008 I Paesi del Mediterraneo (Countries of the Mediterranean) Amare le differenze (Love Difference)

Michelangelo Pistoletto in Naples, at MADRE and Piazza del Plebiscito with the vast "Love Difference" installation.
Every year in December Piazza del Plebiscito (the main square in Naples) becomes a stage for an internationally known artists. This year the city square will host Michelangelo Pistoletto, who especially designed for that space a surface recalling the Countries of the Mediterranean basin, thus proceeding in his work linked to the Love Difference project.
Eduardo Cicelyn, director at Madre Museum in Naples and curator of the event, also invites Pistoletto to display in the museum other major works: "Luogo di raccoglimento" (Multiconfessional Place of Meditation and Prayer) and "Il Terzo Paradiso" (The Third Paradise). The church of Santa maria Donnaregina hosts the famous "Venere degli stracci" (Venus of the Rags).