A year ago, the visit of the rosanero players to the young guests of the Malaspina Juvenile Penal Institute, engaged in the “Spazio Acrobazie Project. Production and redevelopment laboratory through artistic mediation”. Today, from that artistic project, an official Rosanero ball is born, available from the next few days in the club’s official sales channels, and designed by the boys of the Institute with the help of the artistic duo Genuardi/Ruta.
The two artists, involved in the project curated by Elisa Fulco and Antonio Leone, guided the children during the workshops in drawing and designing graphics and motifs with which to cover the Palermo football. There were many ideas at stake, the geometric shapes and colors with which it was interpreted, imagining new chromatic declinations, new logos and rewritings of the eagle, including the version of the ball which was finally put into production.
The project, promoted by both Sicilia Foundation and CON IL SUD Foundation, intended for prisoners with a definitive sentence in the Calogero Bona – Ucciardone prison and for minors and prisoners under external criminal execution, uses art and creativity as an opportunity for training, of redevelopment of detention spaces and as a production formula capable of improving the image and positioning of anything that is produced by the penitentiary system.
The collaboration with Palermo FC, which started on the occasion of 2022 Christmas with pink and black gifts and a football match with some rosanero players within the walls of the “Malaspina” Penal Institute for Juveniles of Palermo, will also continue in 2024. In addition to adopting the ball as an official product of the club, in the coming months, Palermo FC will host a delegation of young prisoners accompanied by the Institute’s staff at the Renzo Barbera stadium to attend one of Palermo’s next home matches. And on another occasion, the Institute’s delegation will also be hosted at the Palermo Museum for an educational visit and a meeting with some members of the team. A social commitment that goes beyond the normal relationship between a football team and its fans, and acquires the broader scope of the connection between a local institution and its citizens.
The football, which will be presented on December 15th at 6.30pm with a special display in the windows of the Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Palermo “Riso”, will be distributed at the Palermo Football Club stores, and can be purchased online at:
The proceeds from the sales of the football will be allocated entirely to the artistic intervention in the garden of the Malaspina Penal Institute for Juveniles scheduled for the summer of 2024
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