On 30 April, world-famous Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto paid a visit to Doel and saw the works of art made within the framework of the KunstDoel-Inside/Outside projects. Pistoletto was so impressed by the beauty of the village and the wave of solidarity it had generated within the art sector, that he decided to write a letter regarding the fate of Doel to the new Flemish Government.  This week, he lived up to his words and wrote a heartfelt plea for the preservation of Doel to Flemish Minister President Peeters. The picture shows the moment on the river bank -- "standing on a metaphysical axis where different time ages intersect" -- described in Pistoletto's letter.

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