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Artherapy – Kandinsky Project
Starting from a major artist’s artwork in order to create an art therapy project which mingles the expressive power of color with the strength of sound. That’s the aim that the American Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been achieving for two years through the “Kandinsky Project”, a wide art therapy program inspired by the famous Russian painter, Wassily Kandinsky, with the goal of producing artworks created by young patients who have cognitive or physical impairments. More than 1,500 artworks have been created during last two years, within a re-discovery of the
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Mea Culpa @ Wunderkammern
Wunderkammern, Via Gabrio Serbelloni 124 – Roma presents Christian Guémy (C215) Mea culpa curated by Giuseppe Ottavianelli critical essay by Ilaria Goglia communication curated by almost CURATORS opening Saturday 23 March, 7 pm 23 March – 24 May Wunderkammern presents C215, otherwise known as French street artist Christian Guémy. C215 has become one of the most influential figures on the international street-art scene, with urban installations decorating the walls of cities around the world, and unmistakable technique and aesthetic. In 2012, Paris’ Musée de La Poste exhibited his work alongside that of Banksy, Invader, and Shepard Fairey for the
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Lui chi è?? – Valerio Rocco Orlando
Valerio Rocco Orlando, born in Milan in 1978, received a BA in Dramaturgy from Università Cattolica in Milan and a MA in Film Directing from Queen Mary, University of London. Constantly balancing between an intimate portrait and a choral dialogue, through film, photography and installation, Valerio Rocco Orlando’s community-based projects focus on the relation between individual and collective identity in order to explore and enhance the complexity of human relationships in contemporary society. Conceived as a gift, as an enriching element of interchange, Valerio Rocco Orlando’s art can be considered as the realm of reciprocity,
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Lui chi è?? – Gaia Scaramella
Gaia Scaramella was born in Rome in 1979. After graduating from Rome Fine Arts Academy, she has been taking part in various collective exhibitions since 1998. She got numerous awards for her engravings and finally won the first Italian Graphics Price in Vigonza in 2007. Her research starts directly from the engraving technique, so that all of her works display a serial conception. Much of her research aims at decomposing and recomposing objects, works and memories, creating new perceptive dimensions and unexpected reading plans following articulated and multifaceted paths. Engraving is the very origin of
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Artherapy – Nature Trail
Sometimes art therapy meets design too. That’s the case of the interactive installations created and produced by Jason Bruges Studio at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. The brief was to design an artwork accompanying children in a calming yet engaging route towards the operating room, conceiving it as a “Nature trail” (title of the installation), where the hospital walls become a natural canvas with digital look out points made by 70 led panels revealing various forest creatures, including horses, deer and birds. The installation, which mingles art, design and art therapy, is composed
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