Painting created by the inmates of the Siena prison enriches a waiting room of the Scotte
A meaningful donation. AND‘that conducted by the Prison of Siena, which delivered a picture made from the contents within the project “Siena, communicating from within. Painting workshop in prison “. The work, a cotton canvas painted with acrylic, of 1.80 x 2.00 meters, entitled “Siena. Communicating from within “, represents the image of Siena with the stylized profile of Guidoriccio in the foreground, a message of emotion and freedom, and was set up in the waiting room of the Immunohematology and Transfusion Service, lot 1 – floor 0 Maria Iosè Massafra and Giuseppina Ballistreri, the teacher of the painting course held at the Monica Minucci, the president of the APS Culturing Association Carolin Angerbauer, the director of the Department of Innovation, training and clinical and translational research of the Aou Senese Giuseppe Marotta, the staff of the Blood Transfusion Center and the Director General Professor Antonio Barretta.
“We are particularly happy to host this donation – underlines Barretta – for the value of the gesture and for the work itself. We decided to place the painting in a highly symbolic place, that is the waiting room where the blood donors wait their turn to perform one of the most beautiful gestures of generosity and altruism towards the other that can exist. I sincerely thank the director of the Siena Prison Sergio La Montagna, the teacher of the course Monica Minucci, the president of Culturing APS Carolin Angerbauer and the authors of the work who contributed to the realization of this project with a strong moral value “.
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“I thank the Sienese hospital-university company for the enthusiasm with which it welcomed the donation and for the particularly happy placement of the work. Art in prison – declares Sergio La Montagna, director of the Siena Prison – has always been a powerful tool for re-education: the commitment of prisoners in a structured activity represents a very effective means of individual expression, in contrast to risk of annihilation that it can have on the sense of identity. In this perspective, artistic activity must not be evaluated only for its therapeutic or consolatory function. The artistic exercise cannot be attributed a merely compensatory nature of “escape” from reality, but a highly qualified expressive function thanks to which subjective emotions are given shape and transposed into a common dimension. Expressing oneself, therefore, is the exact opposite of the restriction: the result – concludes Dr. La Montagna – is that the wall between the prison and the outside is thinning. By making possible the permanent exhibition of the work, the Aou Senese therefore had the merit of granting that not only the essence of the authors was found in it, but also that of the entire community “.