Hi everyone,

Let me introduce you to my latest work called “Franco’s reasons”(which some of you may have already seen in another post), that will start to be exhibited May 16th in Livorno, Italy.

It’s a positive story about Franco Bellucci, who’s been in a mental asylum for about 30 years (15 tied to his bed) due to his destructiveness toward things.

In 1978, after the innovative law against physical retention of mentally affected people was adopted in Italy (inspired by Franco Basaglia, father of the democratic psychiatry movement), they untied him from his bed, but he had to stay another twenty years in the asylum until he was completely freed in 1998.

From then, due to various (positive) encounters, especially with a psychiatrist and a painter, he turned himself in a very special artist of the so called outsider art, making “knot-objects” from every material, his pieces being exposed in various museums around Italy and Europe.

The exhibit will open on May 16th at the small and recently moved and renovated

Galleria Blu Cammello,
via S.Marco 24,
Livorno, Italy

(entrance is obviously free, I say this for those who happen to be around…)

Feel free to have a look at some pictures from the work (comments are sincerely welcome…)

http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/11475

hope you like it

Best,
Tom