(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 02 – ‘At the tip of a pencil. Disability in the eye of the beholder’. It is the initiative that on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, tomorrow 3 December 2022 from 1 to 5 pm in Rome inside the Pantheon, will see the artistic performance of the Paralympic champions for a day, unpublished protagonists of comics.
Eight artists from the Roman school of comics with national and international publications to their credit will portray the Paralympic athletes Maria José Giorio, Alessandro Ossola (athletics), Alessandra Vitale and Raffaela Battaglia (sitting volleyball), Rebecca D’Agostino and Luca Tulli (Paralympic fencing), Silvia Visaggi and Francesca Tarantello (triathlon), Alessandro Sbuelz (wheelchair basketball), Ilaria Maugliani (archery), Liliana Arena (gymnastics) during their sporting activities.
The artists involved are Massimo Rotundo (Tex, Romics d’Oro Award 2018 – author of the event poster), Arianna Rea (Disney America – Monster Allergy), Marco Gervasio (Mickey Mouse – PaperTotti designer – Romics d’ Gold 2018), Giancarlo Caracuzzo (Marvel Entertainment – DC Comics and Bonelli), Riccardo Colosimo (Editions Du Long Bec), Carlo Labieni (Storyboard Artist, cinema and advertising), Lorenza Ricci (Heavy Metal Magazine), Mauro De Luca (Soleil Editions and Bonelli).
The event, born on the initiative of the Directorate of State Museums of the city of Rome and of the Pantheon and curated by the director of the monument, Gabriella Musto and the director of the Roman School of Comics, Stefano Santarelli, in collaboration with the Italian Paralympic Committee, intends to revive the eighteenth-nineteenth-century custom that saw the Pantheon as an important meeting place for artists in Rome. “We are happy to be able to give our contribution to a project that has the merit of enhancing art and cultural heritage through the protagonists of Paralympic sport with the aim of promoting the rights of people with disabilities and an idea of beauty capable of highlighting differences as an asset” explains Luca Pancalli, President of the Italian Paralympic Committee. (HANDLE).
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