Tommaso Barsali’s Profile

Hulk's Toys By Tommaso Barsali: 19May; “Hulk's Toys” is the story of a man and his self-made toys. Franco Bellucci lived for four decades, since his childhood in the early '60s, detained in an asylum in Volterra, Italy, due to his compulsive destructivity towards objects. For fifteen years, he was constantly tied to his bed, as a mean of containing his great force. In 1998, twenty years after asylums had become illegal in Italy, thanks to a law inspired by psychiatrist Basaglia, he was accepted in an open...; Tags: Art, Art Brut, Asylum, Basaglia, Documentary, Italy, Mental Health, outsider, Toys

Tommaso Barsali, 1979.
Its recent work "Earthquake Hotel" about the situation in L'Aquila, Italy, two years after the earthquake, was exhibited in Fotografia Festival 2010, in Rome, curated by Marc Prust (www.fotografiafestival.it), and projected in L'Aquila, in May 2011, following a request by the inhabitants.
Some photographs from his work on a MSF malnutrition programme in Niger were published in "Young Blood" 2008, an italian catalogue of emerging artists in Italy.
"Hulk's Toys" is a book project about Franco Bellucci, an outsider artist, formerly detained in an asylum during 40 years, and his self-made toys. It was recognized an Honorable Mention at IPA 2011 and was awarded an Emerging Scholarship 2012 by Lucie Foundation.