Love Difference

Love Difference is a name, a slogan, a programmatic announcement. The movement joins the universality of art to the idea of political transnationality and focuses its activity in the Mediterranean area because this area mirrors the problems of global society. On one hand the difference between ethnic groups, religions and cultures is the cause of terrible conflicts, today; on the other a dramatic situation has been created by the supremacy of powers that produce uniformity…. Uniformity and difference are the two antagonistic terms that represent the greatest conflictual tension in the present planetary reality. A policy that leads one to love differences is vital to the development of new prospects in the entire social realm.

—Michelangelo Pistoletto, Love Difference Manifesto (2002)

MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO
Love Difference
2005
Neon
126 x 38 3/16 inches (320 x 97 cm)