Portraits of the author

Published on the occasion of the exhibition and charity auction “Portraits of the author” organized by Fondazione Onlus Ligea, a cura di Martina Adamuccio.
Show: Thursday 5 December 2013 hours 18.30, Palazzo di via di Santa Marta 15, Milan
That: Monday 9 December 2013 hours 18.30, Stelline Foundation, Corso Magenta 61, Milan

The project "Portraits of the author" was born by the intention to relate the two worlds often associated but at the same time contrasting. Since ancient times, in fact, Art plays an important role in psychiatry and this for various reasons known to us.
That commonly defined as art therapy is a clinical experience that focuses on the practice of his expressive phenomenon. It is a very useful technique, therapies in use in both childhood and adolescence in both psychosis and personality disorders in adulthood. Drawing, use the colors on the leaves, build forms, modes of expression are simpler and easier to implement than the words and the formation of a discourse, and then, lead the individual to express themselves in a more spontaneous. The artistic production, in fact, is shown, has a positive effect on patients suffering from mental disorders and psychosis of a different kind.
The project is proposed to break down the barrier that separates patients from the outside world through the creation of a sculpture, a photograph or a painting. This is because understand the individual with certain problems is not easy but make sure that the same may be freely expressed, through a system used for centuries as a means of healing, is fundamental.
We have given a common theme to patients, who have dealt with the work in the manner best suited to their use as a means only the different artistic techniques.
In maniera parallela, took part in the project 31 professional artists in the contemporary world who have worked on the same subject so that the patient could develop under different perspectives: one patient and one of the artists. Two different ways of experiencing art, led to work around a single theme: portrait of woman.
The project wanted to make sure that "As the painter through painting fetches his life", so, patients recover through the paint what they feel in their deep, and express it without fear and restrictions on what can be the easiest and most difficult for them to: la pittura.

Martina Adamuccio