"Patch Adams" by Gregorio Mancino

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Ended:November 26th 2019, 5:50am EST

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Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 70cm

Work created and signed by Gregorio Mancino and Patch Adams during the latter's visit to Milan in November 2009.

Patch Adams was invited to Italy by Omeoart, the Cultural Association of Boiron, for a series of meetings and conferences. Patch Adams' medical approach is well known, in part thanks to the hugely popular film that saw him masterfully played by Robin Williams.

According to Patch Adams the real purpose of a doctor is not to cure diseases but to care for the sick and their surroundings. The health of the individual is linked to that of his family, the community in which he lives and our planet.

This is the last of 10 prints housed in various hospitals around the world, one of which is in Monza hospital.

The series of 10 works has the same subject, with slight differences between one work and the other (eg color of clothes, positioning of the balloon ...).

Gregorio Mancino, founder of Movimentart (art in motion), is in constant movement, performing spectacular performances around the world. His stops include hospitals, homes for the elderly and schools. In 2007 he painted weightless at NASA.

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The Cause

Congenital heart diseases are the most frequent congenital malformations, which are the third cause of death in infancy. In the world, today there are more than 5 million children with heart diseases waiting for an operation. Each year 1 million babies are born affected by congenital heart diseases: 800.000 of these have no chance of survival because they are born in poor countries, without doctors and adequate hospital structures.

For this reason “Bambini Cardiopatici nel Mondo” was founded in Milan in 1993. This was the inspiration of a group of physician and Italian voluntary workers, guided by Prof. Alessandro Frigiola, MD, Head of Cardiac Surgery at the Centre “E. Malan” of Policlinico San Donato, and Prof. Silvia Cirri, MD, Head of Intensive Care Unit of the Sant’Ambrogio Hospital, Milan.

The Association utilizes the voluntary collaboration of physicians of the most important Italian and foreign cardiac surgery centres leaded by San Donato Hospital Group of Milan, the coordinator of the projects organization. More than 100 volunteers (cardiologists, surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and perfusionists) leave for missions in developing countries to operate and save children affected by congenital heart diseases.

The Association, in partnership with other humanitarian organizations and with the local governments, is also involved in projects of cooperation and development in the poorer countries: it has been active in the constitution of efficient paediatric cardiology centres so as to develop a local modern health system and gradually lower the infant mortality rate.

Website

bambinicardiopatici.it

Item #L8784

In condition as donated.

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