ARTRIBUNE – CAREGIVER
ARTRIBUNE – CAREGIVER 31.07.2026
di Santa Nastro
Ci sono 8 milioni Caregiver in Italia. A Trapani una mostra spiega che cos’è la Cura.
Rebecca Russo Ph. MrD
CAREGIVER
CAREGIVER
Care as urgency, dedication, and vision in Contemporary Art
Curated by Rebecca Russo
Promoted by Videoinsight Foundation – ETS
Location: Magazzini dell’Arte Contemporanea – Via Custonaci 5, 91100 Trapani (TP)
Opening: Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 7:00 PM
Exhibition Period: July 29 – August 29, 2026
The evocative spaces of the Magazzini dell’Arte Contemporanea in Trapani host the collective and international exhibition entitled “CAREGIVER,” promoted by Videoinsight Foundation – ETS and curated by Rebecca Russo. The show is the result of an Open Call launched in February 2026; presents a profound and multifaceted exploration of the crucial theme of CARE.
Through the lens of international Artists, it explores the many facets of the concept of caregiving: not only as physical or healthcare assistance, but as an existential attitude, ethical responsibility, interpersonal bond, and a tool for psychophysical and social regeneration.
The curatorial vision: Art as a healing device
The project, conceived by Rebecca Russo, fits perfectly into the historical mission of Videoinsight Foundation – ETS, a pioneer in exploring the therapeutic, transformative, and cognitive potential of contemporary art.
In a historical era marked by vulnerability and fragmentation, the figure of the Caregiver (one who takes care of others) becomes a universal archetype.
The winning artists of the Open Call address this crucial theme with a variety of languages, offering the public not only works to contemplate, but genuine stimuli and insights to activate inner resources and promote emotional well-being.
Caring means welcoming others, recognizing their fragility and transforming it into a shared strength. Contemporary art has the extraordinary power to bridge, heal, and provide catharsis.
Artists: Irene Balia, Gianluca Capozzi, Savina Capecci, Marialucia Cirací, Lorenzo Gnata, Taisiya Korotkova, Selena Leardini, Julie Machallova, Renata Machycková, Chiara Manenti, Nunzio Paci, Rebecca Palma, Zuzana Pernicová, Eleonora Picariello, Greta Pllana, Maria Pogorzhelskaya, Marcella Pralormo, Jessica Rafele, Milena Sgambato, Sebastiano Sofia, Cosimo Veneziano
Press Contacts and Information
For requests for artwork, interviews with the Curator, or further details about the exhibition:
Carlotta Thione: carlotta.thione@fasv.it
Artworks
Irene Balia, Mezz’ombra, acrilico su tela, 2025-2026, 150 x 100cm
Irene Balia, Notte, acrilico su tela, 2024, 35 x 25 cm
Gianluca Capozzi, Sinergia dell’affetto, acrilico su lino, 2026, 50 x 40cm
Gianluca Capozzi, Carousel, acrilico su lino, 2026, 100 x 100cm
Savina Capecci, NeuroFlora, olio su tela, 2026, 30 x 20cm
Savina Capecci, Bella (e simpatica), acrilico e olio su tela, 2025, 30 x 20cm
Marialucia Cirací, Caregiver, acrilico su tela, 2026, 80 x 90cm
Lorenzo Gnata, Nel bosco, acrilico su lastra di zinco, 2026, 18 x 13cm
Taisiya Korotkova, Grace, tempera all’uovo su fondo gessato, 2022, 40 x 35cm
Selena Leardini, Nero, olio su tela, 2026, 60 x 70cm
Julie Machallova, The beauty of Darkness, olio su tela, 2025, 40 x 50cm
Renata Machycková, Portrait, acrylic and ink on fabric, 2025, 90 x 90cm
Chiara Manenti, Sisters, acrilico su tela, 2026, 40 x 50cm
Chiara Manenti, L’abbraccio, acrilico su tela, 2025, 40 x 50cm
Nunzio Paci, Potatura di un’anima fragile, tempera, matita e pastelli su tela, 2026, 100 x 70cm
Rebecca Palma, Caregiver 500mg, acrilico su tela, 2026, 30 x 40cm
Zuzana Pernicová, Senza titolo, tecnica mista, 2026, 31,5 x 32,5cm
Eleonora Picariello, Le origini della cura, tecnica mista su tela, 2014, 100 x 100cm
Eleonora Picariello, Aura epilettica, tecnica mista su tela 2026, 15 x 22cm
Greta Pllana, Oioia, olio su tela, 2024, 100 x 100cm
Maria Pogorzhelskaya, Turchese mask, oil canvas, 2014, 18 x 24cm
Marcella Pralormo, Io sono natura, olio su tela, 2025, 24 x 20cm
Jessica Rafele, Duplex Natura, olio su tela, 2025, 50 x 60cm
Jessica Rafele, Aureo sogno, olio su tela, 2025, 40 x 60cm
Milena Sgambato, Unicorno (fragile), acrilico su tela, 2026, 92 x 73cm
Milena Sgambato, Ci abbracciamo, acrilico su tela, 2024, 92 x 73cm
Sebastiano Sofia, Self-portait with stoma, olio su tela, 2026, 100 x 60cm
Cosimo Veneziano, Acts off dissidence, anilina su carta, 2026, 70 x1 00cm
CAREVIGER
5 x 1000 – VIDEOINSIGHT FOUNDATION – ETS
SOSTIENICI NELLA CURA CON L’ARTE
LA CURA DELL’ARTE
5 x 1000 – VIDEOINSIGHT FOUNDATION – ETS
SOSTIENICI NELLA CURA CON L’ARTE
Alessandro Sicioldr, Le Veggenti, 2023, Videoinsight® Collection
ENDLESS SUMMER
Videoinsight® Foundation – ETS participates in ENDLESS SUMMER, an exhibition project conceived by MAGMA, under the Artistic Direction of Alex Montanaro and Gioele Melandri, scheduled from May 16, 2026, to July 1, 2026, at the Magazzino del Sale in Cervia.
From May 16 to July 1, 2026, the Magazzino del Sale in Cervia hosts the second edition of ENDLESS SUMMER, a three-year exhibition cycle (2025-2027) conceived by MAGMA APS. Analyzing the utopian idea of an endless summer as an evocative and narrative device, the project stems from the desire to experiment with new forms of cooperation linked to individual curatorial practices, envisioning the exhibition as a jam session in which each critical and authorial specificity is enhanced without agonism or competition.
ENDLESS SUMMER is thus a shared experience built on discussion. Over the course of the project’s three years, a group of curators from different generations—each with their own sensibilities and lines of research—invites emerging and established visual artists active on the Italian and international scene to explore summer as a potential poetic medium. A season in which time seems to stretch, light redefines rhythms and spaces, and new perceptions, visions, and desires dynamically take shape.
The project moves within this suspended dimension, evoked more as a state of mind than as a simple climatic phenomenon: summer thus becomes a perceptual threshold where the intensity of the experience intertwines with its very transience, and the vitality of the present is already accompanied by melancholy for the inexorable end of the season.
The project’s title is taken from a 1960s documentary about surfing by Bruce Brown, in which the director follows a group of surfers traveling between the two hemispheres in search of a perpetual summer. ENDLESS SUMMER captures this paradox, evoking the image of a perpetual season: an unattainable ideal, an almost utopian dimension.
The works selected by the curators—ranging from painting to video, sculpture, photography, and performance—interact with one another through free dynamics of juxtaposition and resonance. This creates a lively and organic space for discussion, developed in a climate of mutual trust between the artists involved and the curators collaborating on the project.
At the end of the three-year exhibition period, a publication will be produced that will bring together all the works presented throughout the exhibition, documenting the different thematic approaches and the curatorial trajectories that have emerged.
This thematic cycle was conceived by MAGMA specifically for Cervia and realized with the support of the Municipality, with the aim of establishing an interest in contemporary art in the area and contributing to the valorization of certain cultural, social, and anthropological specificities of the community hosting its results. The choice of the theme also stems from the desire to highlight the city’s strong connection with the summer season, a poetic trigger still capable of generating surprising imagery.
ENDLESS SUMMER is an invitation to experience the exhibition as one experiences summer: with the awareness of a full and present intensity, yet destined to fade.
The selection of curators this year is again based on the idea of giving voice to both those who work within museums, galleries, and cultural institutions, as well as those who spearhead independent and non-profit projects. With this in mind, and in a constantly evolving spirit of engagement and collaboration, several project spaces active throughout Italy have been invited to participate, including: Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio (Bologna), Fertile (Brescia), and Toast Project (Florence). Curators Viola Emaldi, Antonio Grulli, Milovan Farronato, Cornelia Mattiacci, and Saverio Verini are also involved.
Artists: Riccardo Baruzzi, Sergio Breviario, Stefania Carlotti, Anna Capolupo, Martina Cassatella, Maurizio Cattelan, Paolo Chiasera, Cuoghi Corsello, Sabine Delafon, Gabriele Ermini, Joana Escoval, Massimiliano Fabbri, Flavio Favelli, Luca Federico Ferrero, Francesco Gennari, Luigi Ghirri, Nan Goldin, Alessandra Giovannoni, Guido Guidi, Lin Hóng Jìng, Lucia Leuci, Goshka Macuga, Andrea Magnani, Tess Mallavergne, Davide Mancini Zanchi, Eleonora Mariani, Eva Marisaldi, Rachele Maistrello, Matisse Mesnil, Jimmy Milani, Mattia Moreni, Chiara Peruch, Alessandro Piangiamore, Paola Pivi, Luca Poncetta, Giulia Poppi, Laure Prouvost, Riccardo Previdi, Marinella Senatore, Vincenzo Simone, Roberta Silva, Tommaso Silvestroni & Mihály Mór Kovács, Michele Tocca, Gloria Tomasini, Vinicius Jayme Vallorani, Giuditta Vettese, Francesco Vezzoli, Venerdisabato, Andy Warhol, Giovanni Wetzl, Shafei Xia.
ENDLESS SUMMER is made possible thanks to the contribution of the Municipality of Cervia.
Press Office
Irene Guzman: irenegzm@gmail.com
MAGMA has been operating in the Romagna region since 2014. It is an interdisciplinary research collective committed to developing curatorial projects aimed at disseminating and fostering multisensory perception of diverse forms of contemporary artistic expression, including music, performance, and visual arts. MAGMA is by nature a nomadic cultural association; it engages with its context and contextualizes its interventions to redefine or expand the identity of the place itself. Its focus is on using immersive experiences to transform, on a symbolic and cultural level, the collective perception of places of high historical, artistic, and naturalistic value: be they evocative natural landscapes (urban and suburban) or institutional cultural contexts, with which to design proposals aligned with the cultural identity of the region. Examples of such contexts include the MAR Museum in Ravenna, the former Convent of San Francesco in Bagnacavallo, Casa Varoli in Cotignola, the former Woodpecker nightclub, and the Magazzino Darsena in Cervia. She has organized and curated several cultural events, such as the Elementi festival (ongoing since 2000), the Modulo Fest festival, and the group exhibitions Bruma (2016), Non Giudicare (2020), Il Rituale del Serpente (2021), and Endless Summer (2025).
SNBA, Lisbon – Masbedo
@snba.pt
Sociedade Nacional de Belas – Artes, Lisbon
@masbedo “Teorema da falta”
by Orsola Vannocci Bonsi – Federico Rudari
10.04. 2026 – 02.05.2026
Masbedo, Teorema di incompletezza, 2008, Videoinsight® Collection
The exhibition, curated by Orsola Vannocci Bonsi and Federico Rudari, takes place at SNBA in Lisbon, in the context of the screening of the film “Arsa” at the 19th edition of the Italian Film Festival, and explores the artists’ archives, highlighting the relationships of influence and contamination between their works. A visual atlas of video fragments constructs a deliberately random retrospective, where what is missing—forgotten, desired, or never existed—becomes as revealing as what is present.
MASBEDO, a duo formed by Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni, has been working at the intersection of cinema and art since 1999. Their works have been presented at institutions such as Manifesta 15 Barcelona, Centre Pompidou-Metz, CCCB Barcelona, Fondazione Merz, MAXXI, and Centre Pompidou, and exhibited at festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Locarno, CPH, and IFFR.
MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
Anna Maria Maiolino, “Poetic Earth”, curated by João Pinharanda and Sérgio Mah.
On view from 25 March to 31 August 2026.
Installed in MAAT’s Oval Gallery, the exhibition brings together early drawings and photographs with a new group of monumental clay sculptures created by the artist on site, shaping a sensory and poetic encounter with space, matter, and transformation.
Annamaria Maiolino, Por um fio (By a Thread) from the series Fotopoemação (Photopoemaction), 1976, 5 ed., Inkjet print, printed 2017, 17 3/8 × 25 5/8″ (44.1 × 65.1 cm), Videoinsight® Collection
BLOOM
BLOOM: the Art of how to Care and Rebirth
Videoinsight Foundation – ETS launches the Open Call for reside Sculptures “Bloom“
Videoinsight Foundation – ETS, a leading institution in the promotion of Art as a tool of prevention and psychological well-being, announces the launch of “Bloom”, an international Open Call, which combines sculpture, performance, and psychology.
The project was born with a clear mission: to promote the health and care through the language of symbols. Artists are invited to defy gravity, and the boundaries of matter, creating light sculptures designed to be worn, and “dwell” on the head.
The Concept: Flourish to Stay Well
The initiative aims to stimulate reflection on one’s health. The title Bloom evokes the act of flourishing, not only as an aesthetic reference, but an imperative of life. The candidate Works must translate into plastic forms concepts and symbols related to spiritual growth, rebirth, the projection of the self towards the top. The choice of the head as the “pedestal” is not random: it is the seat of thought, insight, and identity. The sculptures will have to interpret one or more of the following concepts:
- Health – Care
- Nature – Culture
- Evolution
- Peace – Freedom
- Empathy
- Insight – Awareness
- Beauty
- Communication
- Talent – Vision
- Respect – Dignity
- Friendship – Love
- Art – Science
The fashion Show Event, the Artworks in motion
The winning works will be part of a fashion show – performance of transformative. The sculptures will not be exposed in a static way, but will be worn on the head by models in an exclusive fashion show where the motion of the body will give new life to the art object, creating a dynamic dialogue between art, fashion and psychology. The head, the center of the nervous system and the seat of the psyche, and will become the pedestal living symbols of “elevate” the human being. The lightness of the materials will be critical to allow the work to be carried with grace, transform the art into a dynamic experience and healing. The Works will be interpreted as extensions of thought and emotion.
“With Bloom, the art work is not an object to be observed from a distance, but a medicine for the eyes and for the mind that man chooses to ‘wear’ to express their inner evolution.”
Contemporary Ipazie
The models will be contemporary Ipazie not only simple, heirs of an old name, but manifestations of living and attitudes that challenge the time. As the astronomer of Alexandria, the models – muse Ipazie inhabit the thin border between the logic is more rigorous and empathy, more profound, acting as bridges between what the world is and what it could become, and act as illumined minds of the present, are the guardians and prophetesses of the future.
While the world is running towards a digital distraction perennial, the Ipazie remain anchored to reality with a presence aware. You are not bound to observe the chaos, the filter through their genius, to find an order. They are guided by the
- Vision: to possess the rare ability to read the signals light of tomorrow. Where others see crisis, they can see the need for a new paradigm.
- Action: designing solutions, writing code, take care of wounds, social and environmental, with the precision of one who knows that the future is built on a detail at a time.
The talent of these women is never an end in itself. It is a light that burns if it is kept closed, but warms up if shared. They are illumined minds. They have:
- Merit: The merit is solid, built on the study and toil, and yet it is interpreted with a grace that does not exclude the other.
- The Intelligence of the Heart: “be empathic creatures” means for them to understand that there is no scientific progress or cultural, that it may be said that if he tramples on the human. Their mind shines because it is nourished by the ability to feel the pain and joy of the world.
Ipazie does not seek martyrdom, but the mastery of it. She does not want to die for her ideas, she wants it to live in the hands of those around her.
Ipazie are friends in life, do not envy, do not compete, they believe in the sisterhood intellectual. They build
- Networks of Knowledge: they are “sisters in the culture” because they recognize the talents of others without fear. They create the ecosystem where knowledge circulates freely, where the success of one is the victory of a collective vision.
- The Care of the Everyday: in private life, they are best friends aware of this. They listen to the silence between the words, and offer a shoulder that is, at the same time, a pillar of practical wisdom
These women are cartografe of a new human geography. In an era that often rewards the scream louder, Ipazia prefer the power of the word measured and the effectiveness of the gesture inspired. They are lighthouses that remain stationary on the coast, but that was to sail with us in the open sea.
Jury and Selection
The proposals will be evaluated by a multidisciplinary Jury composed of leading figures from the world of contemporary art, medicine, psychology, and design. The evaluation will be based on the ability of the work to convey a message, therapeutic, and on its aesthetic harmony.
Technical notes and Deadlines
- Opening Call: February 2026.
- DeadLine: submissions must be submitted by June 30, 2026.
- Specifications: The works must be symbolic sculptures, light, safe and wearable on the head.
- Recipients: visual Artists, designers, and creative, without limits of age or nationality.
- Applications: by email – rebecca.russo@fasv.it