Blue and Joy and the kids of Dynamo Camp "Can" acrylic on alluminium and wooden support 164x150 cm

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Ended:February 6th 2017, 10:15am EST

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The Prize

Win the artwork created by Blue and Joy with the kids of Dynamo Camp

Acrylic on alluminium and wooden support. The dimensions are 164x150 cm.

Blue and Joy are the main characters of a project created by Fabio La Fauci (Milan 1977) and Daniele Sigalot (Rome 1976) at the end of 2005.

The extraordinary ability of communicating corresponds to a wide linguistic versatility: they use a lot of materials, often innovative; they test multiple and interdisciplinary techniques; their installations always have a great impact. The shaped and homonymous puppets (Blue and Joy) have opposite expressions and contrasting emotions. They have now become witnesses of a behaviour and, as main characters of stories, they have defined a stylistic attitude reminding Street Style and mass education. They represent icons and messages for an original phenomenology signed Blue and Joy.

Certainly the mix of their experiences, their prolific techniques (from cardboard to aluminium,from mosaic to video, from drawing to painting) and the relation with a young and trendy culture made Blue and Joy an extraordinary aesthetic mirror of our times. Ironic and conceptual, they have a constant confrontation about communication: verbal, visual, coded, allusive, but always revealing hidden messages combined to real emotions.

The artwork was donated by a private donor. Help support the Dynamo Camp association

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The Cause

Dynamo Camp, a non-profit organization, offers free-of-charge Therapeutic Recreation programs to children and teenagers age 6-17 affected by serious or chronic illnesses, as well as to their families and healthy siblings. The activities take place at Camp in Tuscany and – thanks to both Outreach program and DynamoOffCamp truck – in hospitals and foster homes, and in the major Italian cities.

Located in Limestre (Pistoia province), Dynamo Camp is the first Therapeutic Recreation Camp in Italy. Dynamo Camp is a member of SeriousFun Children’s Network, a world-wide network of camps founded by Paul Newman in 1988.

The Therapeutic Recreation model – which is the basis of Dynamo’s programs – focuses on inclusion and socialization. All activities are managed by qualified staff and specialized medical personnel.

Since 2007, more than 35,000 children, teenagers and parents have laughed, played and reached beyond their limits thanks to Dynamo Camp’s Therapeutic Recreation.

Website

dynamocamp.org

Item #P14569

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