By the Education Department of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and Turin Institute of the Deaf
Presentation at Artissima,
International Fair of Contemporary Art
Turin
5th November 2010
We thank Catterina Seia, cultural advisor, who created the partnership between the two institutions and has participated in the project team.
The book is published by Umberto Allemandi Editore, Turin, under the patronage of AMACI Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums. It will be available in Italian bookstores by mid-June and sold online, by www.allemandi.com.
Education Department Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art
The Education Department supports the cultural and institutional activity of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, thanks to its programs enhances its own educational function, favouring the relationship with the public and the acquaintance of the art of the present, within and outside the Museum. Trusting in the power that art has to ignite imagination, to stimulate thought, to obtain pleasure, through the collaborations with different institutional subjects, the Education Department aims to integrate art with the life of people. In such sense it is active towards the artistic heritage accessibility for disabled people, and it has started in 2006 a research project to approach to contemporary art blind and visually impaired people.
Turin Institute of the Deaf
The Turin Deaf people Institute, active in Italy and Albania, is a board established from the Savoy in the first years of the 19th century that, coherently with its statutory dictates, works in favour of deaf people, their social, scholastic and working integration in all the centres of the civil life. In Italy the deaf people from the birth have a medium incidence as a newborn over one thousand, while it is possible to estimate that there are two million persons with auditory deficits.
Information: Brunella Manzardo Education Department Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art
+39 011 95.65.214 [email protected]
