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Siena Health General States 2025

Siena Health General States

‘Art that heals’

On March 22, 2025, Santa Maria della Scala hosted the first day of work of the 2025 edition of the exhibition dedicated to healthcare promoted by the Municipality of Siena. The day was dedicated to the analysis and story of how Art is and can be a valid support for Treatment. Through music, painting, theater and other disciplines, in fact, it offers a channel to express emotions and experiences that are difficult to verbalize, helping to process trauma or stress.
The dances opened at 9:30 with institutional greetings from Nicoletta Fabio, Mayor of the Municipality of Siena; Giuseppe Giordano, Councilor for Health of the Municipality of Siena and Cristiano Leone, President of the Santa Maria della Scala Museum Complex. The debate, moderated by the journalist of La Nazione Cristina Belvedere, proposed interventions with professionals from all over Italy and Europe: the artistic director of the Teatri di Siena Vincenzo Bocciarelli, the artist Cesare Pietroiusti, Irene Sanesi, co-founder of the Cultural Welfare Center of Turin, Enzo Grossi, coordinator of the Art and Health course at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, Rebecca Russo, Founder and President of the Videoinsight® Foundation, Agnese Pieracci, head of the University Hospital of Siena, Cinzia Leone, famous actress and special guest who brought to the stage the testimony of how important art can be for health and its therapeutic power. Vincenza Ferrara and Paolo Zamboni held an immersive in-depth laboratory at Visual Thinking Strategies, an innovative method that uses cultural heritage as a tool for learning, promotion and social inclusion, improvement of interpersonal relationships, cultural mediation and well-being.

Siena Health General States 2025

Siena Health General States 2025

 

The city of Siena confirms its position as a point of reference in the national and international debate on healthcare with the second edition of the Stati Generali della Salute, an initiative promoted by the municipal administration to address the new challenges of the healthcare sector. Three days of meetings, insights and interactive activities led experts, institutions and citizens to reflect on key issues for the well-being of the community. The morning of each day was occupied by conferences and debates, with professionals of national and international calibre, while in the afternoon dedicated activities and initiatives took place.

“With this second edition of the Siena Health General States, Siena confirms its role as a protagonist in the debate on healthcare and well-being”, declared the Mayor of Siena, Nicoletta Fabio. “We have chosen three symbolic places in the city to underline the link between history, culture and health, with the aim of building the future of healthcare and services for citizens together”.

The Councilor for Health of the Municipality of Siena, Giuseppe Giordano, reiterated the importance of the initiative: “With the States General of Health 2025 we want to renew our commitment to the promotion and protection of health, involving the entire community. Siena has always been a center of research and innovation in the medical and biomedical field, and we intend to enhance this identity through the comparison and sharing of ideas”.

 

March 22, 2025

Sala Italo Calvino,  Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala, Siena

 

Can Art be a form of Care? A journey between science and creativity to rediscover Art as Care.

 

Speakers:

Vincenzo Bocciarelli – Actor, Producer, Artistic Director of the Siena Theaters

Cesare Pietroiusti – Visual artist, founder and coordinator of many research centers, projects and art conferences

Irene Sanesi – Co-Founder of CCW-Cultural Welfare Center

Enzo Grossi – Scientific Advisor Bracco Foundation, Founding Member Cultural Welfare Center of Turin, Coordinator of the Culture and Health Course at the University of Italian Switzerland

Rebecca Russo – Founder and President Videoinsight® Foundation, Philanthropist, Collector of Contemporary Art

Agnese Pieracci – Director of the AOU Senese

Cinzia Leone – Actress

Vincenza Ferrara / Paolo Zamboni – Visual Thinking Strategies

 

 

Endless Summer

Thomas Braida’s work, “Siesta del sol, siesta per tutti”, 2019 – Courtesy the Artist; Videoinsight® Collection, Turin; Monitor Gallery, Rome, Lisbon – will participate in the “ENDLESS SUMMER” exhibition that will take place at the Magazzino del Sale (Via Nazario Sauro, 24) in Cervia (RA), from May 17 to June 22, 2025.

With works by

Yuri Ancarani, Thomas Berra, Thomas Braida, Ermanno Brosio, Martina Bruni, Michele Bubacco, Jacopo Casadei, David Casini, Francesco Cavaliere, Goldschmied & Chiari, Adelaide Cioni, Giovanni Copelli, Lucia Cristiani, Rudy Cremonini, Giovanni De Francesco, Roberto DePinto, Jeremy Deller, Ettore Favini, Roberto Fassone, Oliviero Fiorenzi, Christian Holstad, Mino Luchena, Lorenzo Mason, Jonathan Monk, Davide Monaldi, Luca Nostri, Ornaghi & Prestinari, Bruno Peinado, Alessandro Pessoli, Marta Pierobon, Leonardo Pivi, Aronne Pleuteri, Luigi Presicce, Andrea Renzini, Salvo, Pierluigi Scandiuzzi, Mario Schifano, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Thea Vallé, Vedovamazzei, Flaminia Veronesi, Carlo Zauli

Edited by
Vittoria Caprotti, Viola Cenacchi, Rossella Farinotti, Davide Giannella, Gioele Melandri, Ornella Paglialonga, Giovanni Rendina, Valentina Rossi

With the artistic direction of
Viola Emaldi, Alex Montanaro

Fondation A – A Stichting

Anna Maria Maiolino, “Por um fio (By a Thread)”from the series “Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction)”, 1976. Courtesy the Artist; Videoinsight ® Collection, Turin 
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan – Albisola 

Fondation A – A Stichting

“A partir d’Elle. Des artistes et leur mère”

By Julie Héraut 

23.01. – 18.05.2025

Roland Barthes, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Dirk Braeckman, Sophie Calle, Rebekka Deubner, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Paul Graham, Hervé Guibert, Michel Journiac, Lebohang Kganye, Ragnar Kjartansson, Anna Maria Maiolino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mark Raidpere & Ilene Segalove.

Le Bal

Le Bal in Paris

” À partir d’elle. Des artistes et leur mère”

12.10. 2023 al 25.02. 2024

Commissaires : Julie Héraut avec Diane Dufour
Avec l’aimable participation de la Maison Charles Heidsieck

Anna Maria Maiolino, ‘Por um fio’ (By a Thread) from the series ‘Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction), Inkjet print, printed, 1976/2017. Courtesy The Artist; Videoinsight® Collection, Turin; Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Albisola

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Gallerie degli Uffizi

Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze

19 September – 10 December 2023

“Camere con vista. Aby Warburg, Firenze e il laboratorio delle immagini”

William Kentridge, “The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa”, 2014. Courtesy The Artist; Videoinsight® Collection, Turin; Lia Rumma Gallery, Milan.

Credit:
Gallerie degli Uffizi / Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut / Bärbel Reinhard

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Collective

COLLECTIVE | 8.11.2023

“Hater”, curated by Rebecca Russo, Videoinsight® Foundation.

The Videoinsight® Foundation presents ‘HATER’, curated by Rebecca Russo, a group exhibition featuring the winner of the 11th Videoinsight® Award.

Di Alessandra Bruni

8) PITTURA Selena Leardini Casa dolce casa, acrilico su tela, 80 x 90 cm, 2022

Selena Leardini, “Casa dolce casa”, acrilico su tela, 80 x 90 cm, 2022, Videoinsight® Collection

SavinaCapecci, Socials Tedium, acrilico, olio e pastello su tela, 120x100cm, 2023

Savina Capecci, “Socials Tedium”, acrilico, olio e pastello su tela, 120 x 100 cm, 2023

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Marta Scavone, “Ultimo eccesso alle 21.40”, fotografia digitale, 50 cm x 70 cm, 2023

Raffaella Baldassarre

Raffaella baldassarre, “Il pipistrello si crocifigge da solo. Come le gramaglie”, 2021, 50 cm x 125 cm (filo di ferro, velo di seta cucito a mano su intelaiatura di filo di ferro)

Artissima

Odi et Amo. Hate and love: opposite units of a single feeling.

Life includes Eros and Thanatos, Love and Hate, the drive of Life and that of Death. The line that separates Love and Hate, Libido and Destrudo is extremely thin.

We live in a violent world, in which respect, kindness and gratitude seem to be rare values. We experience envy and aggression daily, in reality and on the web.
Violence against women, against children is intensifying, the physical and psychological violation of human rights is the order of the day.

The Videoinsight® Foundation has as its mission the Prevention and Treatment of Psychophysical Well-being through Contemporary Art.

On the occasion of Artissima 2023, it proposes the Group Exhibition “HATER”, curated by Rebecca Russo, philanthropist, collector, psychotherapist, President of the Videoinsight® Foundation.

The Exhibition includes the Finalist Works in the second selection of the Open Call “Hater” launched in February 2023 and the assignment of the Videoinsight® Award, now in its 11th Edition.

These are the names of the participating Artists:

Marco Abrate (Rebor), Sofia Amore, Raffaella Baldassarre, Pasquale Battaglia, Savina Capecci, Gianluca Capozzi, Marialucia Ciraci, Antonia Colella, Alessandro Dentico, Diego Dominici, Angelo Farina, Pietro Farina, Damiano Fasso, Lorenzo Gnata, Selena Leardini, Simone Marini, Roberto Rossacci, Milena Sgambato, Paolo Treni, Roberta Toscano, Marta Scavone, Luca Zarattini.

The Exhibition was created to raise public awareness on the issue of “Haters”, people who use social networks to express verbal violence or to incite hatred towards someone or something.
Hidden under nicknames, “Haters” poison communications with comments marked by obsessive, unmotivated, humiliating destructiveness.
The loss of control, of identity, selfishness, inhumanity have always existed, the media have amplified the phenomenon.
The constant and repeated attitude of intolerance, contempt, denigration, sadism and provocation, causes frustration, discomfort, depression, pain, desperation in the victims.

Cyberbullying is the online manifestation of a broader phenomenon known as bullying. The latter is characterized by violent and intimidating actions carried out by a bully, or a group of bullies, on a victim. The actions may involve verbal harassment, physical aggression, persecution. Today, technology allows bullies to infiltrate the homes of victims, to materialize at any moment of their lives, persecuting them with offensive messages, images, videos sent via smartphone or published on websites via the Internet. Cyberbullying defines a set of aggressive and intentional actions, by a single person or a group, carried out using electronic tools (sms, photos, videos, emails, chat rooms, instant messaging, websites, phone calls), whose aim is to cause harm to a victim unable to defend themselves.

The “Hater” Exhibition is aimed at the Prevention of cyberbullying, to support victims damaged by bullying, by unheard-of wickedness, by prevarication, by emotional abuse.
The awareness stimulated by the interaction with the selected Works of Art focused on the theme – the Videoinsight® experience proposed to the public – is the first step towards Prevention, towards Treatment.

The Exhibition will be inaugurated on November 3, 2023 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, at the Videoinsight® Center in via Bonsignore 7 in Turin. It will last until January 7, 2023.