America
Axis IV · Artistic crafts · since 2023
The World Gate
Walls that Unite
A collective work in low-relief ceramics, handmade by artists from different continents. Five panels, one for each continent, each measuring 1.20 by 2 metres: placed side by side, they form a six-metre gate. Each panel is born in one country and replicated by the artists of the others, so that over time every city in the network builds its own complete gate.
The skill of the hand
A common language made of clay.
The project draws on UNESCO's principles of cultural diversity. The artists work together for weeks: they prepare the slabs, carve the low relief, then fire and assemble the panels. The workshop is open, and passers-by are welcome to stop, watch and ask questions. The work remains on the wall; what the project truly produces is collaboration between people of different languages and faiths.
The World Gate is coordinated by l'IsCaPI within the Pitagora Mundus Programme. Its partners are the Municipality of Belvedere Marittimo, the Associazione Agorà, Galala University in Egypt, the Municipality of Luis Beltrán and the Province of Río Negro in Argentina, and the Crown Institute in Nepal and Australia. Artistic supervision is entrusted to maestro Enzo Molino.
Africa
Roots and Horizons
Prof. Akmal Abdelrahman (Galala University, Egypt)Created in Belvedere Marittimo in October 2024
Europe
Identità
Maestro Angelo Aligia and Julieta Castellan (Italy)Unveiled in Belvedere Marittimo on 16 October 2026, during the Summer Peace UniversityAsia · Oceania
Panels in preparation
The Asia panel will be created by Nepalese artists, the Oceania panel with Australian partners. With them, the work will span all five continents.The Programme's parameters
Beauty, utopia and the pursuit of happiness
The beauty of the World Gate lies in clay carved by hand and in the signs of different cultures on the same wall. The utopia is a gate built together, panel by panel, until every city in the network has its own complete gate spanning the five continents. Happiness lies in the open workshop, where artists, students and passers-by work side by side or pause to watch, and in the unveilings that bring distant communities together.
Milestones
From Belvedere Marittimo to the world, and back.
- July–September 2023Belvedere MarittimoThe Argentine artists create the America panel and set the cycle in motion.
- October 2024Belvedere MarittimoProf. Akmal Abdelrahman creates the Africa panel.
- December 2024Galala University, EgyptThe Argentine artists replicate the America panel on campus.
- 13–22 November 2025Luis Beltrán, Río NegroA workshop open to the public: the replicas of America and Africa take shape before the eyes of local residents.
- 1 April 2026Luis Beltrán, Río NegroUnveiling of the two panels on the wall of Escuela N° 11.
- 16 October 2026Belvedere MarittimoUnveiling of the Europe panel during the Summer Peace University.
- Next stagesEgypt · Nepal · AustraliaNew replicas in Egypt and Nepal, followed by the Oceania panel in Melbourne. The rotation continues until 2030.
The workshop
Hands, clay, unveilings.
