During the Meeting Giovani e Cuore Aritmico 2018, on Saturday 26 May from 9.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. at the Hotel Venezia Laguna Palace in Mestre, the book that artist Stefano Reolon conceived in collaboration with Prof. Barbara Bauce and Dr. Viviana Marcon and Fabiana Micheluzzi, for the new awareness-raising campaign of the Geca Onlus association of Padua, was officially presented.
Presentation of the book by artist Stefano Reolon
This brand new publishing project intends to bring the younger generations closer to the Geca Onlus association, which has been working for twenty years to support people affected by hereditary heart disease and their families, through an immediate, creative, fresh and direct instrument such as contemporary art. A publishing project that brings together art, beauty, prevention, information and that speaks directly to young people and in particular to schools in the area. Stefano Reolon’s illustrative text is inspired by the world of Japanese manga but also by the slang of young people, all seasoned with a strongly pop vein and fluorescent colours. An extremely creative way of communicating to young people what is often difficult to talk about, illness, which is often understood as a synonym for diversity and isolation
The work, which uses a direct and familiar language, is the result of an intense collaboration between two apparently different languages, the medical and the artistic, with the aim of communicating some fundamental concepts of prevention. Artist Stefano Reolon has masterfully translated important messages into strong, incisive images aimed at young people. Through the fresh and evocative illustrations and dialogues, which drew heavily from the studies carried out by the psychologists who collaborate with the Geca onlus association, psychologists Viviana Marcon and Fabiana Micheluzzi, and the collaboration with cardiology doctor Barbara Bauce, an alternative and more incisive communication was achieved, which aims to sensitise young people to look after themselves and listen to their own bodies.
The Young and Arrhythmic Hearts Meeting is organised by the Geca Onlus Association of Padua and certified ECM by Provider ID.1884 Department of Medicine. It enjoys the patronage of the Veneto Region, Ulss 3, the Provincial Order of Surgeons and Dentists of Venice, the University of Padua, the Department of Medicine – Dimed, the Department of Thoracic and Vascular Cardiological Sciences Unipd, Telethon Friends Associations, Liceo Artistico Statale M. Guggenheim of Venice, IC L. Spallanzani of Venice. This year’s meeting is dedicated to the association’s Honorary President, Prof. Andrea Nava, who sadly passed away recently.
