michaelab311
Wind of change
I am very honoured to be part of this project... don't think I can make it to the opening, but maybe you can?
Press release
“A Look Beyond” 64 photographers to face cancer
Opening October, 12 - 2009
Permanent photographic exhibition for the Medical Oncology Department of Presidio De Lellis – AOPC, Catanzaro, Italy.
Sponsorized by Amministrazione Provinciale of Catanzaro, Italy.
The permanent exhibition will be preceded by a temporary installation of the photographic works at Complesso Monumentale San Giovanni – Catanzaro, Italy.
The project of this exhibition was born by the proposal of Stefano Molica, Head of the Medical Oncology in Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital in Catanzaro, to introduce art inside his department as important psychological support to overtake hard times that cancer patients, relatives, healthcare workers face every day in hospitals. This exhibition follows a new attitude, common in many Italian hospitals and elsewhere, scientifically proved, since many years. The novelty of this project is the participation of photographers coming from every corner of the world, the way used to contact them and the great quality of the images on show.
The participants are 64, more than 50% foreigners, coming from the USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, the UK, France, Germany, Estonia, Greece, The Netherlands, Israel, Hungary.
Many of them are already well-known artists and have participated to various international exhibitions.
The curators, Maria Luisa Corapi and Anna Leporati, both fond of photography, have contacted and selected the participants through a famous photo sharing web site.
Photographers were asked to produce works whose subject should represent “a look beyond”, in other words images able to distract the patients’ eyes and to lead their minds elsewhere than the hospital walls.
Artists greeted enthusiastically the appeal of solidarity, showing a complete empathy with the topic and, thanks to the web, they could reply immediately and send their works.
As required by the organization, all the works, printed on aluminum, are in a square size, 75x75 cm, unframed and without glass, “bare”, so they can show themselves directly, without any mediation in the space where they just represent “a look beyond”. From now on, cancer patients, in the Medical Oncology Department directed by Stefano Molica, will be accompanied by a privileged photographic path, expression of an extraordinary universal solidarity.
Wind of change
I am very honoured to be part of this project... don't think I can make it to the opening, but maybe you can?
Press release
“A Look Beyond” 64 photographers to face cancer
Opening October, 12 - 2009
Permanent photographic exhibition for the Medical Oncology Department of Presidio De Lellis – AOPC, Catanzaro, Italy.
Sponsorized by Amministrazione Provinciale of Catanzaro, Italy.
The permanent exhibition will be preceded by a temporary installation of the photographic works at Complesso Monumentale San Giovanni – Catanzaro, Italy.
The project of this exhibition was born by the proposal of Stefano Molica, Head of the Medical Oncology in Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital in Catanzaro, to introduce art inside his department as important psychological support to overtake hard times that cancer patients, relatives, healthcare workers face every day in hospitals. This exhibition follows a new attitude, common in many Italian hospitals and elsewhere, scientifically proved, since many years. The novelty of this project is the participation of photographers coming from every corner of the world, the way used to contact them and the great quality of the images on show.
The participants are 64, more than 50% foreigners, coming from the USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, the UK, France, Germany, Estonia, Greece, The Netherlands, Israel, Hungary.
Many of them are already well-known artists and have participated to various international exhibitions.
The curators, Maria Luisa Corapi and Anna Leporati, both fond of photography, have contacted and selected the participants through a famous photo sharing web site.
Photographers were asked to produce works whose subject should represent “a look beyond”, in other words images able to distract the patients’ eyes and to lead their minds elsewhere than the hospital walls.
Artists greeted enthusiastically the appeal of solidarity, showing a complete empathy with the topic and, thanks to the web, they could reply immediately and send their works.
As required by the organization, all the works, printed on aluminum, are in a square size, 75x75 cm, unframed and without glass, “bare”, so they can show themselves directly, without any mediation in the space where they just represent “a look beyond”. From now on, cancer patients, in the Medical Oncology Department directed by Stefano Molica, will be accompanied by a privileged photographic path, expression of an extraordinary universal solidarity.