The catalogue of the exhibition Art on the Margins reconstructs the history of the painting atelier of the former neuropsychiatric hospital of Arezzo, once located in the Pionta complex, where the Arezzo Campus of the University of Siena is today located. The atelier was founded in 1958 by Dr. Furio Martini, psychiatrist and deputy director of the hospital, who initially availed himself of the collaboration of the Roman painter Franco Villoresi. In the exhibition there are around eighty works created by patients, many of which are preserved in the archives of the University of Siena.
After Bianca Tosatti’s introduction, the catalogue opens with a contribution by Roberto Boccalon on the connections between art and psychiatry. Luca Quattrocchi’s essay analyzes Franco Villoresi’s activity, before and during the years in which he was ‘master’ in the hospital atelier. The artistic laboratory is then presented with a selection of pictorial works by some patients, edited by Sabrina Picchiami, up to the main section of the exhibition: the activity of Livio Poggesi, the most assiduous and able student-patient of the atelier, by Paolo Torriti. The volume ends with a contribution on the archives of psychiatric hospitals and particularly on the Arezzo one, written by Stefano Moscadelli, Antonella Moriani and Lucilla Gigli.
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Roberto Boccalon
Insider/Outsider Art. Percorsi e intrecci creativi tra arte e psichiatriapp.21-33
Luca Quattrocchi
Mettersi al punto giusto: Franco Villoresi ‘maestro’ dell’atelier di pittura dell’Ospedale neuropsichiatrico di Arezzo | Franco Villoresipp.35-70
Sabrina Picchiami
Outsiders, non per loro scelta. Esperienze artistiche nell’Ospedale neuropsichiatrico di Arezzo 1958-1978 | L’atelierpp.71-125
Paolo Torriti
«Io penso che questo riesce benino». Vita e opere di Livio Poggesi 1934-1985 | Livio Poggesipp.127-188
Lucilla Gigli, Antonella Moriani, Stefano Moscadelli
L’Ospedale neuropsichiatrico di Arezzo: aspetti istituzionali e archivisticipp.189-208
Book Title
Arte ai margini
Book Subtitle
Livio Poggesi e l’atelier di pittura dell’Ospedale neuropsichiatrico di Arezzo, 1958-1978
Editors
Luca Quattrocchi, Paolo Torriti
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
210
Publication Year
2024
Copyright Information
© 2024 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0400-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0399-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0400-2
Series Title
Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze storiche e dei beni culturali