Milano, Free Art Open Museums: art belongs to everyone and can reach anywhere.

Milano, Free Art Open Museums: art belongs to everyone and can reach anywhere.

 

The aim of the Corte Sconta project, carried out with the contribution of the Community Foundation Milano is to make works of art accessible, after the limits imposed by the pandemic and other constraints, but also to bring artistic interest closer to individuals excluded from public events for health, physical-psychological or criminal reasons, making them participate in art as a way to Freedom.

 

ALMA, on the one hand, wants to re-evaluate places forced to the margins of social life, on the other to bring important and significant works back to public life, otherwise reserved for a few or forgotten in storage.
Reduction of inequalities, gender equality, accessibility and social sustainability are the key words that guide the project to create the habit of disseminating art and approaching vulnerable audiences.

The Opera prison, the RSA Golgi Redaelli, the Olinda Association at the former Paolo Pini psychiatric hospital, will see, in the words of the project managers Maddalena d'Alfonso and Andrea Vento, "exhibition and participatory sharing of works of art from private collections, all expressions and vehicles of declination of the concept of FREEDOM, so important to recover and relive".

The initiative will end in autumn, with the meeting of all the works exhibited at the Fabbrica del Vapore, at the Corte Sconta headquarters, to collect the results of the project.

Freedom and imagination, freedom and memory, freedom and communication, freedom and travel: these are the themes expressed and addressed.

Following each event, a talk will be held in person or digitally, animated by personalities from the fields of art, culture and social initiative. Each work will be digitized and monitored with the most advanced techniques available today.
The Project enjoys the patronage of ICAMT International Committee for Architecture and Museum Techniques - ICOM International Council of Museum.

The initiative starts with the presentation of a first event at Milano Painting Academy where we will talk about "Freedom and the human body", through the exciting art of PATRIZIA COMMAND. The work presented is "The Climb", which in a period in which the figure of women seems to be, in some respects, still so delicate, releases an emblematic meaning through the use of colors and the presence of the scale at which women they cling to reach their ideals represented by the moon.

“There is a profound connection between Freedom and the human body, the latter understood as space, relationships – states Gianni Maimeri, President of the Maimeri Foundation sponsoring Milano Painting Academy – It is indeed art itself that interprets the connection, being the expression of a physical gesture, but originating from the internal need to express, transmit. Maimeri Foundation intervenes in the promotion of art and culture through initiatives with social impact. ALMA espouses the Foundation's areas of intervention in its spirit, giving visibility to art and places of hardship or complexity”.

“Colors, shapes and spaces come out of the physical body to free themselves. Starting from one reality, another is explored in a sort of struggle for freedom. We overcome limits to know and experience something else”

At the presentation, Friday 10 March 2023, at 11.00 am in the premises of Milano Painting Academy, in via de Sanctis, 34 a Milano, spoke in order:

 

Maddalena D'Alfonso – curator:

“ALMA is a project that tends to want to bring art to those audiences who have remained very marginalized and more closed since the pandemic. They were already experiencing situations of difficulty, of marginality, but at this moment they remained abandoned. We have identified some realities that are particularly affected from this point of view, which are the RSAs, the prison community and that of mental and cognitive distress. ALMA brings art to this kind of reality. He then relocates works by artists who are normally in private collections or places of custody, to bring them closer. ALMA is a Corte Sconta project, financed by the Community Foundation. Gender equality, reduction of inequalities, accessibility to the work of art and its contents are the main objectives of Corte Sconta's ALMA project.”

 

Gianni Maimeri – President of the Maimeri Foundation:

“I preside over the Maimeri Foundation, which has the patronage and scientific direction of the place where Alma sees her departure. This is a place that was born with a dream, which is to have the possibility of learning to draw and paint in a context similar on the one hand to the Renaissance workshop, but in the present and projected towards the future. This is an initiative that perfectly meets both the mission of the Maimeri Foundation, which also operates at the level of initiatives with social impact, and of the Milano Painting Academy which supported the Foundation in activities of this kind.”

 

Patrizia Comand – painter of “La Scalata”, the work that was exhibited to the public:

“It represents a climb to the moon, which is essentially the symbol of something we want to achieve: an idea, a dream, an ideal, something that takes us into an "other" dimension. At the bottom there is the struggle to be able to climb and this is why there is a variation of colors from bottom to top: at the base where, in fact, the clash takes place the colors are strong, contrasting, "earthly" in the sense that they are still linked to reality, then, as they detach themselves from the earth, they attenuate and slowly take on the colors of the moon, that is, of the dream which we will arrive at and with which we will merge."

 

Andrea Vento – Corte Sconta Cultural Association:

"Yesterday I interviewed a young man and asked him what the most important values ​​are and in what order, and he told me freedom, then he thought a bit... justice and peace. I believe that the theme of freedom should be celebrated, and in this sense - thanks to the Community Foundation and various partners such as Goppion, Ciaccio and others - we have decided to launch this path called ALMA - Free Art Open Museums - which begins today, with this preview of the painting by Patrizia Comand, La Scalata. We talk about freedom and the human body, with Patrizia Comand here at Milano Painting Academy, then followed on March 21st by "freedom and imagination" with the paintings of Enrico Baj, at the Opera Prison. We will talk again about freedom and memory at the RSA Golgi Redaelli, about freedom and communication at the Olinda Association of the former Paolo Pini and finally everything will converge at the Fabbrica del Vapore, in autumn, with freedom and travel.”

 

Notes on Patrizia Comand

Patrizia Comand, Corbetta (Milan), graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1972.
In 1979 he exhibited at the Salone dei Giovani Artisti at the Palazzo della Triennale in Milano, where he meets Mario De Micheli with whom he establishes an intense relationship of respect and friendship. In 1991, from Venice, he moved for a long period to Central America (El Salvador,
Guatemala and Mexico). Upon his return to Italy he resumed his exhibition activity which has now expanded with participation in important exhibitions throughout Europe, Japan, Turkey (where in 2005 he received 1st prize at the Ankara Biennial), Morocco and Mexico. . In 2007 he exhibited on the facade of the Cathedral of Milano 2 large “teleri” (10 x 20 m each) entitled “Il cielo sopra Milano” which are now in the Vatican. Often, at the invitation of Vittorio Sgarbi, she has been involved in important exhibitions in recent years, among these Padanian Surrealism (Gothic Palace, Piacenza, 2002), Fantastic Painting in Italy (Revoltella Museum, Trieste, 2002), 54th BIENNATHE DI VENEZIA (2011), EXPO-Italian Art (Milano, 2015), BOTTICELLI-his time and our time (MART of Rovereto, 2021). His are the official portraits of the Popes BENEDICT XVI (2005)), and FRANCESCO (2013) for the "Hall of the Popes" of the Basilica of Superga (To).

In 2014, LA NAVE DEI FOLLI ends, a large work measuring 2 by 9 meters in length., which begins a very intense exhibition process, is in fact presented in important venues, including the FGS Foundation of Cassano Magnago (Va). The famous publisher FRANCO MARIA RICCI he then decides to present it in 2017 at the LABIRINTO DELLA MASONE in Fontanellato (Pr), and publishes a prestigious catalog with prefaces by Philippe DAVERIO and Giovanni MARIOTTI

In 2016 he executed the portrait of the Nobel Prize winner RITA LEVI MONTALCINI for the FRAUENMUSEUM in Bonn (Germany), in 2020 that of the poet ALDA MERINI and in 2022 that of the Mayor Emeritus of Milano GABRIELE ALBERTINI.

In 2022 it receives from the Municipality of Milano, at Palazzo Marino, the prize "Faces of the Metropolis" which is awarded to personalities who have distinguished themselves in various fields and presents the work “And Justice Be!”

Since 2006 he has been part of an international group that exhibits annually at the Grand Palais in Paris. His works are found in public and private collections in Italy and abroad and is present in the Archive of “National Museum of Women in the Arts” in Washington.

 

It will be possible to visit the exhibition at the Milano Painting Academy in via Francesco de Sanctis 34, from 10 March to 10 April, from 10.00am to 18.00pm, from Monday to Thursday.

Thanks to:

Corte Sconta Association

Community Foundation Milano
Massimo Ciaccio – BIG
Maurizio and Danilo Rea and Aerariumchain
Cav. Alessandro Goppion – Goppion SpA
Md'A Design Agency – Maddalena D'Alfonso
Milano Painting Academy/Maimeri Foundation
ICOM-ICAMT – International Committee of Architecture and Museum Techniques of the International Council of Museums

InnovaMI – Laura Maesano

 

A project by the Corte Sconta Association with the contribution of the Community Foundation Milano.

Community Foundation Milano (fondazionecomunitamilano.org) supports and promotes socially useful interventions to respond to the needs of over 2 million citizens of Milano and 56 Municipalities in the South West, South East and Adda Martesana areas of the Metropolitan City. Born in 2018, it contributes to the development of the territory starting from listening and dialogue with institutions, Third Sector organisations, associations and citizens. Community Foundation Milano is part of the network of 16 territorial Foundations, which operate in all the provinces of Lombardy and in the provinces of Novara and Verbania-Cusio-Ossola, established by the Cariplo Foundation.