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Exhibition "Paco Aguilera Painting Award" at the Catalunya campus CRAI
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The Villablanca Foundation has promoted the first edition of the Paco Aguilera Painting Award, an initiative born from the passion to stimulate, promote and give visibility to the artistic creativity of adults with intellectual disabilities. This award is a tribute to the transformative power of art, a tool that transcends barriers and becomes a universal language of inclusion and social recognition, it is a more natural, spontaneous and unique form of expression.
The name of the award, Paco Aguilera, pays tribute to an inspiring figure who, since 1993, dedicated his professional career to various services of the Pere Mata Group, and who in 2007 became the medical director of Villablanca, a position he held until his passing in 2020. His conviction in art as a means of expression and integration for people with intellectual disabilities is the legacy that we celebrate today with this award.
In this first edition, we had the participation of 127 artists from 28 entities. Last December, as part of the activities commemorating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Reus, we held the award ceremony for the three winning works and the twenty finalists.
The exhibition will be displayed in the lobby of the CRAI campus Catalunya, we invite you to let yourself be captivated by art and enjoy every stroke and color that reflects the soul of the artists.
