A world made of paper. A world of news, folded and layered pages, worn by time yet endlessly renewed. Pages that, day after day, build a shifting and unstable geography of facts, editorials, and words, an ocean of information through which we attempt to understand the present. This is the world as seen by Michelangelo Pistoletto (Biella, 1933), one of the most internationally celebrated artists of our time.

For the Corriere Art Collection, Pistoletto has created a special cover that reflects on the nature of information itself, paying tribute to the 150th anniversary of Corriere della Sera. An artwork conceived for a truly landmark occasion, transforming the newspaper into both subject and material, surface and meaning.

The cover presents a fragile world built from newsprint, an ever-changing structure shaped by time, memory, and collective narration. It is a visual metaphor for contemporary reality: complex, layered, and constantly in motion, just like the flow of information that defines our daily lives.

Available from Tuesday, January 20, the collector’s edition of la Lettura #738 includes a QR code that, through the Corriere Art Collection app, grants access to the digital version of the artwork, certified as an NFT. The work thus expands beyond the printed page, entering the digital dimension while preserving its conceptual and symbolic integrity.

Arte Povera, Civic Commitment, and the Ethics of Art

A founding figure and driving force behind Arte Povera, Michelangelo Pistoletto has spent decades redefining the relationship between art, society, and responsibility. Since the 1960s, his work has questioned systems of power, representation, and participation, positioning art as an active agent within the social sphere.

This ethical and civic commitment finds one of its most emblematic expressions in Third Paradise, a symbol and ongoing project that calls for balance between nature, humanity, and technology. The same vision resonates in this cover, where the word Peace is imprinted onto a world made of news and paper fragile, conflicted, and deeply human.

For Preventive Peace as a Critical Gesture

Here, For preventive Peace is not a decorative motif nor a rhetorical hope. It is a critical and political act, a statement that confronts the tensions of our time and the responsibility of information in shaping consciousness. Set against a landscape of headlines and pages, the word becomes a call for awareness, dialogue, and collective accountability.

“In Pistoletto’s cover,” writes Gianluigi Colin, curator of the Corriere Art Collection, “the world of information reveals both its vulnerability and its power. Peace is not a promise, but a demand, addressed to art, to media, and to society itself.”

A Collector’s Edition for a Historic Anniversary

This special issue stands as both an homage and a reflection: a celebration of 150 years of journalism and a meditation on the role of news in constructing reality. Through Pistoletto’s vision, the newspaper becomes a living organism, one that absorbs time, conflict, and hope, while continuously renewing its form.

A collector’s edition that unites art, history, and civic thought, inviting readers to engage not only with the image, but with the responsibility embedded in every page.