TOTEM FOR PEACE
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The "Totem of Peace", the work of the Turin sculptor Mario Molinari, is the symbol of the "United States of the World" and represents the Peace: it was chosen in 1997 by 3,000 representatives of 181 countries and since then the "United States of the World" with the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" are spreading this universal symbol by setting up the network of "Cities for Peace".
The sculptor Mario Molinari was an artist of clear fame, sensitive to the themes of peace and dialogue between cultures, as evidenced by his numerous works and his life.
The cultural project of the "Totem of Peace" is carried out in the world by Michele Capasso: dedicated, since 1987, to the construction of dialogue as a tool for the mediation of conflicts, he combines his international experience of social and intercultural planning and planning with the professional one of architect and engineer.
Many countries have created the monumental work symbolising peace and coexistence between different peoples. Among the main ones are:
The sail that symbolizes the journey, the sea. This “Mare Nostrum” of Ours which was the cradle of civilization, the scene of clashes and battles between the people who inhabited it but also and above all of the exchange of goods and knowledge. A sea celebrated in myth where Ulysses got lost, continuing to wander in his desperate search for his way back. The sail that turns red, at dawn and dusk, at departure and return in the immutable rhythm of the Universe .
(M. MOLINARI)
Torino
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24 January 2011
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Category: Totem for Peace
A Totem for Peace with the colours of the Italian flag will be raised in Turin, in 2011, on the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unity. The news was given in Naples by Michele Capasso, president of Fondazione Mediterraneo during the presentation of the initiatives for the Shoah Day.
The International Committee of Fondazione Mediterraneo – entrusted with the implementation of the Totems for Peace worldwide – has permitted to build a Totem aimed at paying tribute to the 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unity. The Totem, that will be unveiled by the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano, will be 16 meters high, built in reinforced concrete and thoroughly tricolour, in honour of the national flag colours.
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Rabat
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07 December 2010
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Category: Totem for Peace
During a meeting with the Mayor of Rabat Fathallah Oualalou and the Director of the National Library of Morocco Driss Khrouz has been established the place where will be erected the Totem for Peace, 30 metres high.
The site chosen is located in front of the Library in correspondence with the grand entrance staircase.
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Fès
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05 December 2010
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Category: Totem for Peace
During a meeting with the Mayor of Fez Hamid Chabat and with the Deputy Mayor Touhami El Amouri, President Michele Capasso established with them the site where will be constructed the Totem for Peace by the sculptor Mario Molinari. The site chosen is located between Independence Square and the beginning of Allal El Fassi street.
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Torino
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30 November 2010
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Category: Totem for Peace
The City Council of Turin decided to put a commemorative plaque remembering the artist Mario Molinari on the facade of the building in Via Saluzzo where he used to live and work.
Born in Coazze in 1930 and dead in Turin on the 27th of november 2000, he began his career exposing at the Galleria Gian Ferri in Milan and at the Wolford Gallery in New York. He is one of the founders of the surrealistic group "Surfanta". He was a pioneer of Luci d´Artista, an eclectic man rich of multifaceted expressions. In his artistic research the constant metamorphose of materials, shapes and thoughts is relevant.
Some of his permanent monumental works,among which the "Totem for Peace", are exposed in several places such as the Frais Church (Chiomonte), Garambois Square (Oulx), Bruges harbor (Belgium), Mauriziano Hospital, Abruzzo Park, Cilento Park, Vesuvio Park.
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Dakhla
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24 November 2010
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Category: Totem for Peace
In a meeting with the Governor of the Oued Eddahb-Lagouira region, Hamid Chabar, and the Moroccan Prime Minister’s councillor, Driss Guerraoui, it was install the Totem for Peace, symbol of peace, in the very region where there is still tension with the Polisario Front, so as to demonstrate the inevitability of the peace process. Among the sites examined: the new port and the desert where it touches the Atlantic Ocean.
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