An exhibition in Italy shows the work of 13 artists with intellectual disabilities

Last week, the Italian city of Turin hosted the World Winter Games 2025, which welcomed Athletes with mental disabilities Of more than 100 different countries to compete in the world scenario.

But the spirit of inclusion was not limited to sports. Parallel to games, in Fonzone Sandito Re -Ripodingo, Museum of Contemporary Art The non -purposeful institution founded by the Patricia Mosque Sandito Ri Rylopedo in 1995, to celebrate Creativity, integration and self -expression.

13 artists suffer from mental disabilities

Under the title “When Parking is formed”, the exhibition high 13 artists suffer from mental disabilities From the Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg collection.

Eisenberg, defenders for a long time from Artists with disabilitiesThey have devoted their collection to amplify the sounds that are often ignored in the art world. In cooperation with the prestigious New York Commissioner Matthew Higz, they collected a selection of works that They unite perceptions And celebration of individualism.

A group of amazing paintings

“For many years, Eisenberg was a university university for the amazing contemporary paintings in New York. They have a daughter, Jesse, with difficulties in learning, and they participated very with the commissioners who started, about twenty years ago, in that. I am looking for artists who have similar challengesHiggs explained the “Euroneus Culture” at the opening of the exhibition.

He added: “With the passage of time, they created an exceptional set of these works. They not only collected these pieces, but they were actively promoting and donated to important institutions.” The artists are also represented in San Francisco Museum of Modern Artshe Museum of Modern Art in New York And many other famous institutions.

Artists in the exhibition have a wide range of mental disabilities and development, such as Non -verbal autismand schizophrenia And the faces of cognitive deficienciesEach of them is the conditions for its artistic production.

One of the main aspects of Neurdivergente community is a varietyLike any other society. Each artist has his own techniques and topics, art concentration, preferred scale and material choice. Higgs often explains, she mastered a creative technique and process that develops over time. “

Wonderful and chaotic abstraction

Dan Miller, an artist with autism with communication problems, makes the power of repetition. His work offers a variety of words, messages, names and numbers, imposed on a Successful but wonderful Jackson Pollock’s style remembers. The exhibition “When Parking” is formed three of their wonderful works.

Likewise, the practice of Nneena Kalu is also based on Repetition and class. Since 1999, it is part of ActionsPace, the London Support Organization for artists who have learning difficulties, and its great facilities obtained International recognition. Many artists have benefited from the climbing spaces for art as ActionSPace, which supports and supports Nervous artists and intellectually disabled.

Kalu and paintings are often produced in pairs, echoing and completing each other. One of the most prominent works in the exhibition is DipTico “Drawing 26”and Who embodies his distinctive approach to creating brands through movement and repetition. Show work Two sleeping, swollen And a whirlpool, which was created with black, blue and purple lines overlooking a bold yellow background.

A way to challenge and redefine social novels

For some artists in the exhibition, art is a way to challenge and redefine social narration. The late Derek Alexis Kalward, who suffered from a SchizophreniaUse his work to explore issues such as Black masculinityAnd spirituality and faith. One of the distinguished works of the exhibition, entitled “See the Healing” (“Vision of Healing”), shows a divine person with a beard looking forward while a ray of orange light comes out of his eye. Vegetable cover and heavy flowers surround their personality, Connecting the spiritual to the natural world.

There is also a wonderful vibrant work William Scott, Oakland artist Fool Autism and schizophrenia Who works in creative growth, one of the oldest artistic centers in the world and the largest. He describes himself as an architect, a technician who swings deeply in his life, and represents his paintings from his family and the church believers in actors, musicians and civil rights leaders. In many of his works, San Francisco Yutobia was “Madih Fresco” (“Alabado Sea Fresco”), proposing new neighborhoods, buildings and community centers.

An exhibition that breaks the barriers in the art world

The exceptional talent of the artists of this exhibition cannot be denied. However, despite this, Disabled They are still A very little actor in the arts. The 2023 report, commissioned by the British Council, revealed that 48 % of European artistic organizations included in the survey were presented by the disabled artists. Less than once a yearWhile 23 % did not.

Higz believes that the exhibitions like “when you take parts”, when situations form “play a vital role for Breaking these barriers in the art world. “The problem of nervous diversity is usually biased and ignorant. One of the ways to overcome it Make your voices and views more clear. Art is a strong way to attract global.

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“One of the most important aspects of this exhibition is that it tells the history of the heroes. Not only from the artists themselves, but also University who defended this work. The work of these university is tirelessly to move in the art world in museums and exhibitions. “They are defending this art to ensure that he deserves to see these works,” Higz explains.

‘When the positions take the shape“When parking is formed,” it can be visited until April 27 in SANDRETTO Re The RibaDENGOGG de Turín FoundationIn Italy.