Joy and pain have an uncertain boundary, in the season that lights up the face. The phrase by Fabrizio De Andr, sung in Ave Maria (1971, from The good news) expands, like a colored prayer, at the center of a great work signed by Marco Nereo Rotelli.
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The painting is the first of the project Ars Medica, conceived by Luigi Piccinini, head of the functional rehabilitation department of the Eugenio Medea Scientific Institute in Bosisio Parini (Lecco), a pediatric rehabilitation center that deals with treating children suffering from congenital and acquired brain injuries, and hosts hospitalizations – in fact – rehabilitation. The project aims to bring an art with a symbolic and salvific value into the hospital, thanks to the artists who will make themselves available for free, to give relief to families who spend long periods in these places, where pain is often consumed.
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The children come to the hospital accompanied by their parents – Piccinini explains to the “Corriere” – for the recovery of functions they have lost or due to injuries or surgeries they have undergone. This is why I thought of embellishing the spaces, not only from an aesthetic point of view. To overcome the classic filling images of pediatric wards, I imagined a qualitative leap to communicate with the parent as well, a support that I would call aesthetic-emotional, the head physician continues. So I’m asking some artists to make a meaningful work. My initial idea was to have drawings on the walls, so that the work was part of the hospital and was not marketable. So is the title Ars Medica it brings medicine, a science that should leave little room for fantasy and imagination, close to art, which relies on a more abstract concept. Sometimes consoling.
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Marco Nereo Rotelli (Venice, 1955), painter and sculptor, also works with lights and makes figures and different types of knowledge dialogue in visual and poetic games (the artist created the cover of Lettura # 89 of 4 August 2013). The technique of his work could not be made on a wall, so Rotelli gave a monumental painting, 6 square meters of canvas, with an exciting visual impact. I chose Rotelli because he is a conceptual painter, he works a lot on the word and I had at heart the idea of passing a verbal message; and that there was an interrelation between the word, the image, the content. So we chose the song by De Andr so that the picture, which has just been fixed at the entrance to the ward, can give a message to the parents of the young patients, and in particular to the mothers. Since this song is a hymn to motherhood, it is a symbolic comfort for the many mothers who pass by.
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A work that can be read on several levels, Piccinini explained: a first visual impact and immediately refers to colors, to size; then we glimpse the words, and we wonder what their origin is, discovering that it is a song, and then get to listen to it. A path that from the image becomes consolation, thought, music. a process not exactly immediate but of gradual involvement of the observer. Somehow Rotelli takes up Giordano Bruno’s idea of Imagine agents, that is, the images that can create thoughts, even when you move away from the picture, and that continue to work within you to bring out what you have.
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A legend will be added alongside the work, the head physician said Qr code, thanks to which you can get information on the author and, in this case, on the song. Future artists are not yet confirmed but each of them will give his own interpretation of the sense of Ars Medica.
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An artistic offer in the name of regeneration that, in the Rotelli-De Andr binomial pays homage to families gripped in pain, and in particular to that miraculous season of being a mother.
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November 4, 2020 (change November 4, 2020 | 21:17)
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