The concept of disease The general definition of a disease is as follows: a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning. It is a pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and is characterised by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms. A patient will define himself or herself as affected by either a disease or a disorder. In this document the word "disease" is used.

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I am naturally attracted towards difficult situationsand passionate about reaching objectives that are hard to get. Photo hunting is one of them because it requires a great deal of stubbornness and deep knowledge of wild animals’ behavior.

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In her recent photo-based paintings InSide / NoSide, Daniela Papadia creates a utopian gathering of the Family Of Men who move together from every remote site on earth. She invites people – with their cultures, rituals and daily behaviours – to join in at a gathering around a table in the desert, in an virgin no-place, where she envisages an existence of mutual, positive creativity, leveraging on the present energy and looking towards the future ...

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From the dawn of bio-technology to the research to fight rare pathologies, the exhibition explores the borders between natural and artificial, between reality and manipulation. A metaphor of innovative intervention methodologies envisaged by mondobiotech to work on the 7,000 rare pathologies and in particular pulmonary illnesses, the exhibition illutrates the potentials of an innovative approach by following, step by step, a research case...

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Ivo Soldini was born in Lugano in 1951. Soldini’s work fits into the sculpting tradition focused on both the representation of the human being and on the psychological investigation of man’s modern existence. In the first decade of his plastic activity, Soldini experimented with several figurative modes, alternating the naturalistic approach with more informal and expressionist stylistic methods. In the mid-1980s, his fundamental choice became more effectively evident: the human figure, rendered in its interior essence by means of the incisiveness of the gesture...

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Daniela Papadia, from Palermo, is a video-artist and a painter. For years, she has been carrying our artistic research in the fields of technological avant-garde and manual skills. At the center of this search there is the human being, a suspended identity that is continuously put into discussion. Her characters live in worlds that are deformed by dynamic tensions, situations in which it seems impossible to keep individual and collective trajectories under control...

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What is the shape of health? Does a formal language of wellbeing exist? Do wishing well rituals and the fear of ill-luck belong only to primitive cultures or are they also part of ours? Is it possible to design a therapy? Starting from these questions, the exhibition displays a story that comes to life through medical traditions and drugs design, wishing-well objects and new therapeutic forms...

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