“The need to rethink the basic utility of my role as an artist has led me to collaborate with Emergency, an independent and neutral Italian association that was established in 1994 to offer free, high-quality medical-surgical assistance to civilian victims of war, anti-personnel mines, and poverty. For some time now I have systematically proposed to private collectors and institutions that they assign most of the prize money I have won to Emergency, to support the activity of its medical facilities, which consequently became the subject of photographic reportage.” This is how Massimo Grimaldi describes a series of projects that includes Emergency’s Paediatric Centre in Goderich, Photos Shown on Two Apple iMac Core i3s, 2010—his winning competition entry for the 2009 Fellowship for Young Italian Artists, awarded by Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. [...]
