Pistoletto’s New Infinity is the Italian installation for the Semester

A brand new infinite symbol, enormous and colourful. This is the masterpiece that will accompany the six-month Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. As usual, when the rotating Presidency is changed, the installation exhibited in the wide hall of Justus Lipsius Palace, seat of the European Council, is changed too. For its Semester, Italy chose “The New Sign of Infinity” by Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the most renowned contemporary artists of our country.

It is a revision of the usual mathematical sign of infinity: according to Pistoletto, the two traditional circles represent nature and artifice, then he decided to insert a third central circle, an ideal place, the “Third Paradise” – where the conflict between the two spheres is overcome and nature and artifice melt into our society. A highly symbolic choice by Italy: even divergences among European peoples could be overcome in a brand new Union.