Necessary Beauty: Art in Hospitals
transforming spaces, sustaining souls...
I worked for five years on the project THE NECESSARY BEAUTY which transformed the spaces of the Radiotherapy Radiotherapy department of the Niguarda Hospital in Milan..
I have always felt that this was more than a job, it was putting myself at the service of something greater, the wellbeing of those who pass through those spaces, stopping, working, accompanying and above all caring for them. Sometimes with effort, often with fear.
From the colour floor, to the waiting rooms, to the two underground bunkers intended to house two state-of-the-art particle accelerators for the treatment of certain cancers.
My mission is to transform places without light or air into places where the eye can lose itself and imagine and look around and reconnect with ancient memories, perhaps from childhood.
I have deliberately alternated closed and open forms, defined and undefined, real and imagined.. A contrast that gives life and mystery to what is represented. Which remains on the threshold threshold of realism, without crossing it. thresholds leave the way of the imagination open, our memory can work on and conclude forms, letting itself be touched by what is suggested by the imagination. suggestedbut not entirely manifested. This contributes to the magic and to work on the levels of anxiety present in patients, or claustrophobia in those who work underground all those hours.
Soft and transparent to evoke lightness and lightness have been achieved by using the
pigments thinned with glues and fixatives, exploiting the smoothness of the wall to achieve vibrational effects. vibration
as if drawing on a sheet of coarse-grained paper.
Alongside the pigments with glues I used acrylic paints, pencils and
watercolour pencilschalks, waxes and coloured paper inserts, using a collage technique.
collage technique. An invitation to deconstruct the usual, and let go of colours and shapes...
Photo gallery
A few looks at the sketches and then their implementation on the wall.

















