{"id":1600,"date":"2008-09-10T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T10:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2008\/09\/10\/collettivo-180\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:52:23","slug":"collettivo-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2008\/09\/10\/collettivo-180\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"COLLETTIVO 180"},"content":{"rendered":"
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September 10th - November 30th 2008<\/h2>

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Techincal Info<\/h3>\n
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Vasco ASCOLINI, Gianni BERENGO GARDIN, Giorgio BERGAMI,
Bruno CATTANI, Enzo CEI, Carla CERATI, Mario DONDERO, Michele D'OTTAVIO, Claudio ERN\u00c8, Uliano LUCAS, Christian MARTINELLI, Giordano MORGANTI,
Giacomo SAVIOZZI, Giovanni SESIA, Massimo Stefanetti, Filippo URBINI<\/strong><\/p>\n

Curator:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0Fabrizio Boggiano
Opening VISION QUEST:<\/strong>\u00a0 October 9th 2008 from\u00a06 pm to midnight
Opening\u00a0EX O.P.QUARTO:<\/strong>\u00a0October 10th from 6.30 pm\u00a0to 10.30 pm
VISION QUEST, Piazza Invrea 4 r, 16123 Genova
EX O.P.QUARTO, Via G. Maggio, 6, Genova
Tel.: <\/strong>+39 339 7534993 - +39\u00a0010265629<\/p>\n

VISION QUEST hrs:<\/strong> Wednesday\u00a0, Thursday,\u00a0Friday\u00a03.30 p.m to 7.30 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. to 12.30 a.m and 3.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.\u00a0 or by appointment\u00a0 (tel. +39 3397534993)
EX.O.P. QUARTO hrs:<\/strong> Monday to Sunday 8a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

Web site:<\/strong> www.visionquest.it<\/a>
E-mail:<\/strong> info@visionquest.it<\/a>
Catalogue:<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0VISION\u00a0QUEST\u00a0(Italian\/English) with essays by\u00a0 Fabrizio Boggiano and Prof. Antonio Slavich, Edizioni VISION QUEST, Genova<\/p>\n

The artists will attend the openings<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Press Release<\/h3>\n
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Collettivo 180<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

VISION QUEST Contemporary Photography is happy to open the 2008-2009 artistic season by presenting the collective photographic exhibition entitled COLLETTIVO 180.
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Thirty years after the approval of law 180 which was also known as the \u201c\u00a0 Basaglia\u00a0 Law\u201d taken\u00a0 from the name of the psychiatrist who promoted this law, we felt the\u00a0 need to put together an\u00a0exhibition. We didn\u2019t want to create a celebratory exhibition, but\u00a0 rather one which would be able to\u00a0once again attract attention to a particularly\u00a0 important theme, that of mental health.<\/p>\n

The 70\u2019s constituted the most active period of our Italian Republic;\u00a0 there were debates on the\u00a0subjects of terrorism, the mafia, political misdemeanors, not to mention\u00a0 new social ideals and deep\u00a0reaching civil battles. All of these phenomena\u00a0 led to important State laws.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Today, we\u2019d prefer to forget all of this but an even more serious\u00a0 tendency is that of once again\u00a0 arguing out these matters and reorganizing those self same laws.\u00a0 In this way important\u00a0 achievements have been nullified.\u00a0 Therefore, in the spirit of the facts above we intend to carry\u00a0 forward a small but important\u00a0 contribution aimed at re-awakening the memory and at increasing\u00a0 the awareness of how this\u00a0 attention must be constant and acute.\u00a0
Consequently, the\u00a0 exhibition shall commence with historical pictures from the years 1967 to 1970\u00a0 when it was possible, thanks to Franco Basaglia and his co-workers, for some\u00a0 individuals to gain entry into psychiatric hospitals and to photograph the\u00a0 horrors within their 4 walls. Attention towards a world which up until those\u00a0 years had been intentionally hidden away grew inexorably thanks to these\u00a0 pictures, and many photographers started and continued to document every aspect\u00a0 of it.\u00a0
Since that time\u00a0 thirty years of the law have passed, and forty years have passed since the\u00a0 opening of the first psychiatric wards: many things have been achieved but\u00a0 there are still more yet to be achieved. <\/p>\n

\u00a0 The exhibited\u00a0 photographs span this complete arc of time fixing one\u2019s attention by, before\u00a0 everything else, obliging one to reflect on today\u2019s situation. This state of\u00a0 affairs today is running the risk of tragically slipping backwards and falling\u00a0 into the hands of indifference and shameful speculation.\u00a0\u00a0 For these reasons\u00a0 therefore part of the exhibition shall be held inside the ex- Psychiatric\u00a0 Hospital of Quarto, Genoa, together with projections, meetings and other\u00a0 events. One of these shall be a true and proper showing of the \u201cFourth Eye!<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 exhibition: young photographers together with the staff of the institute and\u00a0 some of the patients shall make their own contribution. They\u2019ll be given a\u00a0 disposable camera (same model for everyone) with which they\u2019ll be able to\u00a0 freely photograph the goings on inside the hospital. A selection of their work\u00a0 shall then be exhibited inside the ex- Psychiatric Hospital and published in\u00a0 the exhibition catalogue.\u00a0
All of this shall be\u00a0to demonstrate the very importance of demolishing every type of barrier; at the\u00a0 same time it shall also serve as a protest against those individuals who would\u00a0 like to hide away suffers of mental illness from the eyes of society.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019ll\u00a0 never be possible to fight back against this society which is by now based on\u00a0 appearance only, if we continually allow the bandages to fall over our eyes in\u00a0 a mist of silence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fabrizio Boggiano<\/p>\n

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