It will be inaugurated today, Tuesday 30 April at 5.30 pm Palazzo Leone da Perego in Legnano and in nine shop windows, URP, the San Magno parish center of the ZTL, as well as in the atrium of Palazzo Malinverni, the photographic exhibition spread with seventy shots by Armando Belloni, who portrayed people at work in their daily activities.
As stated in a note from the Municipality, strictly in black and white and never “posed”, the photographs were taken in the post-Covid period and 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 images aim to celebrate work in its various facets, from manual skills to the application of technology, from love for nature to a vocation for beauty, recalling old crafts and looking at the new achievements of science and technology.
Organized by the Municipality of Legnano, Rotary Club Parchi Alto Milanese, Italian Consulate of Guinea Bissau, Associazione Liceali semper and Famiglia Legnanese, the exhibition has a charitable purpose: the support of the community of Guinea Bissau, 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 “Health for your future” project, aimed at the creation of the first medical center for pediatric neuro-rehabilitation in the Bohr hospital in Guinea Bissau, and which takes the form of the purchase of specific beds and aids for rehabilitation, in the training of staff and in the activation of scholarships for new doctors and, finally, in 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 was made possible by the collaboration of several subjects, a sort of squaring the circle, which includes art, solidarity, volunteering and culture. Thank you all for creating this dream,” said photographer Belloni.
The exhibition will be open on Saturdays and holidays from 10am to 12.30pm and from 3.30pm to 7pm; on Thursdays from 3.30pm to 7pm. Free entry.
