Neighborhoods. A new field of flowers in via Anfossi, the mural that colors the center for the disabled has been created
Neighborhoods. A new field of flowers in via Anfossi, the mural that colors the center for the disabled has been created
Milan, November 19 2019 – A mural of over 400 square meters painted by the Orticanoodles collective and the users of the disabled day center in via Anfossi to cover the municipal structure with a new field of flowers.
This is the work of art created in the last two weeks on the initiative of the Arrigo and Pia Pini Foundation, which since 2016 has been giving associations and groups active in supporting vulnerable people the experience of being able to dedicate themselves to urban art, developing projects of notable visual impact with one's own hands, under the supervision of expert artists. The project was created in collaboration with APS Non Riservato, Wit Design, the Italian Institute of Photography and supported by the Fondazione Comunità di Milano.
In this case the artist is Walter Contipelli, founder of Orticanoodles, who also involved six users of the Cdd in via Anfossi and the same number of the Cdd in via Gonzaga in the painting. Inaugurated last year, the Center in via Anfossi hosts a total of 15 people between the ages of 16 and 65 with a 100% disability. The structure has a surface area of 789 square meters distributed over two floors above ground to which are added 1.500 square meters of garden and external appliances.
"The work is very beautiful, and the idea of involving the people who attend the CDDs is very beautiful - say the councilors Gabriele Rabaiotti (Social and housing policies) and Filippo Del Corno (Culture) - A way to make them protagonists of this work, which will help give greater recognition to a center which, delivered last year, has been awaited by families for many years".
“This new Cdd is functional and innovative in its structure, but it presented itself as a blank page - says the president of the Foundation leading the project, Veronica Pini - this is why we asked Orticanoodles, with whom we have already signed several other urban art projects in city, to concentrate his creativity on this precious place, active in supporting many families. This artistic redevelopment project follows the philanthropic tradition of the Arrigo and Pia Pini Foundation, which has always been close to the most vulnerable in social inclusion projects".
Active on the urban art scene since the early 2000s, Orticanoodles has a collaborative portfolio of monumental public art pictorial works nationally and internationally, as well as gallery work. The collective is the only one in Italy to carry out participatory urban art projects that lead to valuable results: this is possible thanks to the use of the "spolvero" technique, the mother of Renaissance frescoes.
Contipelli is a professor of "Urban design" at the LABA Academy in Brescia and at the IED in Milan: "This year - he says - attention to the climate and our planet is finally on the agenda, and we therefore considered that the environmental issue was a priority. From here the natural subject was born: a symbolic field of flowers, in the heart of the city."
Photo credits: Cosimo Beduini and Paolo Fava
Video: edited by Wilt Design agency
Updated: 19/11/2019