From the 30 April to 27 May Palazzo Leone da Perego and nine shop windows (shops, URP, San Magno parish centre) of the ZTL, in addition to the atrium of Palazzo Malinverni they will host the seventy shots by Armando Belloni which see the works and the many gestures that distinguish them as protagonists.
Strictly in black and white and never “posed”the photographs were taken in the post-covid period and have captured professions and trades present in the area as well as activities of great tradition and renown in other parts of Italy such as those of the glass blowers of Murano and the embroiderers of Offida: «The exhibition – explains the author – is inspired by the photography of Giuseppe’s workshop, a place that it has inspired and pushed us to document crafts that are increasingly rare or difficult to see and appreciate. I wanted to give the same dignity to all different types of work by celebrating it in its different facets, from manual skills to the application of technology, from the love for nature to the vocation for beauty, recalling old crafts and looking at the new achievements of science and technology. Because, quoting Martin Luther King: “If you had to be street cleaners, you should go and sweep the streets in the same way Michelangelo painted his figures… In short, you should sweep them so well that all the inhabitants of heaven and earth stop to say: A great street cleaner lived here and did his job well.”
The medical center for pediatric neuro-rehabilitation in Guinea Bissau
Created by the Municipality of Legnano, Rotary Club Parchi Alto Milanese, Italian Consulate of Guinea Bissau, Association of High School Students and the Legnanese Familythe exhibition, which is part of the program of the Centenary of Legnano Città by virtue of what is the genius loci of Legnano, that is, industriousness, has a charitable purpose, the support of the Guinea Bissau community, and for this reason it is in continuity with the decades of experience of doctors and professionals of the Rotary Club Parchi Altomilanese who carry out cooperation activities in the health, educational and social fields remotely and on site.
All free contributions from visitors to the exhibition will go to finance the project “Health for your future”, aimed at creating the first medical center for pediatric neuro-rehabilitation in the Bohr hospital in Guinea Bissau and which takes the form of the purchase of beds and specific aids for rehabilitation, the training of staff and the activation of scholarships for new doctors and, finally, the coordination and supervision on site by specialized medical personnel. The project’s contacts are the cooperating doctor Ernestina Ricotta and the Italian consul in Guinea Bissau Bruno Morlacchi.
The exhibition will be inaugurated at 5.30pm on April 30th and will be open on Saturdays and holidays from 10.00am to 12.30pm and from 3.30pm to 7.00pm; on Thursdays from 3.30pm to 7.00pm.
