In Turin, the sixth edition of SolidArte: great contemporary art to give a future to children in need

Twenty-five artists, both Italian and international, are at the sixth edition of SolidArte, a solidarity event organized by OAF-I (Fraternal Aid Organization-Italy) and aimed at supporting Vita ai bambini, a project of Sermig (Youth Missionary Service) to give a future to little ones in need. Art and solidarity thus return to embrace on Thursday, May 30, at the sixth edition of SolidArte, a charity art exhibition to be held at 6 p.m. at the Ettore Fico Museum in Turin (Via F. Cigna, 114). The language of art therefore becomes universal and becomes a social vehicle.

SolidArte is an event organized by the association OAF-I (Fraternal Aid Organization-Italy), curated by Michela Frittola, carried out in collaboration with the Ettore Fico Museum, under the patronage of the Piedmont Regional Council and the City of Turin.“Solidarte,” stresses Maurizio Irrera, president of OAF-I, “is now in its sixth edition and once again we are proud to be able to count on the adhesion of prestigious artists who have donated one of their works to help us support the ’Vita ai bambini’ project, which is to offer, within the spaces of Sermig, residential care for children suffering from serious illnesses.”

The works donated by the twenty-five artists who joined SolidArte 2019 will be on display from May 25-30, 2019, in the spaces of the Ettore Fico Museum. They will feature a work by Arnaldo Pomodoro, one of Italy’s greatest contemporary sculptors, who is also well known and appreciated abroad; a work by the recently deceased architect and designer Alessandro Mendini, who from the late 1970s was among the renewers of Italian design; a canvas by Ettore Fico donated for the occasion by the Ettore Fico Museum; the works of two of the protagonists of theArte Povera season such as Piero Gilardi and Giorgio Griffa; a master of analytical painting such as Riccardo Guarneri, already protagonist at the 1966 Venice Biennale and again at the 2017 Biennale; important artists such as Mario Airò, Marco Bagnoli, Massimo Bartolini, Bertozzi&Casoni, Franco Guerzoni, Ugo La Pietra, Nino Longobardi, Eva Marisaldi, Perino&Vele, and Alfredo Pirri; awork by Nunzio, winner at the XLII Venice Biennale of the 2000 Prize as best young artist while in 1995 he returned there with a solo room and was awarded an Honorable Mention; a playful installation between art and design made by Marco Lodola; some of the protagonists of the Turin art scene such as Francesco Barocco and Enrico T. De Paris; a drawing made by illustrator and cartoonist Massimiliano Frezzato on the occasion of the live painting that opened the exhibition Once upon a time... playing with fairy tales - Drawings, children, rights at Palazzo Lascaris; some of the most interesting exponents of the new artistic generations such as Paolo Bini, Rebecca Moccia (protagonist with one of her installations as part of Opera Viva Barriera di Milano), Serena Vestrucci (Winner of the XVIII Cairo Prize) and Eugenio Tibaldi protagonist two years ago precisely at the Ettore Fico Museum of the evocative installation entitled Seconda Chance.

Life to Children is a project of Sermig that focuses on children and the priority of opening a future for them. In Turin it aims to offer residential care for children with serious illnesses at the Hermitage of Pecetto. In the rooms built on the second floor, the Vita ai bambini project has been welcomed. Most of them are foreign children and young people living in the poorest countries ofEastern Europe,Central Asia and South America, in areas where there are no hospital facilities capable of treating their illness. The children are cared for by international associations working in the area of protecting the rights of sick children and by the Social Services of hospitals (especially the Regina Margherita Children’s Hospital in Turin). Sermig offers residential hospitality to the sick child and his or her family for the entire period necessary for treatment but also for subsequent quarterly, semiannual and annual checkups, which sometimes occur up to five years after their initial arrival. The children’s families will also find support and companionship during a difficult, delicate and particularly vulnerable period. OAF-I since 2000, the year of its birth, “aims to work in union of spirit and purpose with all those who share the project of helping children and young people in difficulty to regain dignity and self-confidence, lost due to marginalization or precarious social and family conditions” (Bylaws, art.2.).

All the projects that the Association supports both in Italy and in the Global South aim to equip the youngest and most vulnerable, with the necessary tools to guarantee them a better future; this is done by guaranteeing basic education and training that they would otherwise not be able to obtain.

For all information you can visit the official OAF-I website.

Source: release

In Turin, the sixth edition of SolidArte: great contemporary art to give a future to children in need

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