PEOPLE
Everyone is, first of all, a person, with a personal path and an authentic story.
We believe that all people have the right to choose how they participate in LENSart, how they tell their stories and what they share.
Our focus is on deep experiences that reflect the identity of the creator. Every collaboration becomes an act of trust and freedom, a valuable contribution to a slow and gentle cultural revolution.
SIMONA RAIMONDI
Artist
Simona was born in Milan in 1970 and, since 1991, has found a second family in the community of Maddalena dell’Anffas Ticino di Somma Lombardo. In 1993 she began her artistic career with the Atelier espressivo, a space created to promote personal expression through art.
Through drawing, painting and then ceramics, Simona explores her identity and redefines the relationship with herself and others. Deconstructing body shapes and reinterpreting them, she gives voice to her unique vision of the world. The motto of the Atelier, “we try to remake the portrait,” perfectly reflects her path: a dialogue between introspection and harmony with what surrounds it.
RICHARD BOULET
artist
Canadian artist from Edmonton, he explores through his artistic practice themes related to marginalization, interweaving the personal with the collective. His research addresses mental health and inclusion issues, with a growing focus on LGBTQ2S+ communities.
With three degrees – in Environmental Studies and Painting at the University of Manitoba and an MFA in Drawing and Intermediate at the University of Alberta – Richard combines text and image by working with textiles, a technique that considers both artistic expression and personal meditation. He has exhibited in prestigious settings, including the Textile Museum of Canada, and participated in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and beyond.
“I do cross-stitch every day. It’s like a meditation, and the use of needle and thread is a gift I give to myself,” says Richard, host of ArtVerona in the space Arte Connettiva.
Anna Todeschini
Art Teacher
Graduated in letters and specialized in Art Management with a specific focus on creative multisensory learning in museum and cultural context.
The experience of recent years with schools and institutes has brought her ever closer to the theme of diversity and neurodiversity. Through teaching she seeks to create space for the different forms of expression in their uniqueness and to develop awareness and originality.
Laboratorio espressivo "e"
Atelier
The expressive workshop “e” is located on the island of Giudecca, in Venice. The distinctive feature of its activity consists in the direct observation of Venetian works and not, and their subsequent interpretation in laboratory, where participants have the opportunity to develop a special bond with their city and its immense artistic heritage. Andrea Boscolo, Lea Clara Ballarin, Antonella Agostini, Massimo Poli, and Massimo Reboa, are some of the artists who attend the laboratory of expressive “e”.
Lisa Perini
artist
Graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, she is an artist from Treviso with a rich path of awards and exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Her works are part of public collections in Europe, America and Asia.
Color is his personal language: a key to reinterpret the world through emotions and sensations. Lisa’s autism is not a limitation, but a gift that amplifies her visual perception, allowing her to capture extraordinary nuances. In her works, red emerges as a stylistic signature, accompanied by the use of recycled materials – glass, plastic, coins – that enrich her creations with a unique material dimension.
TAPU singulart
Collective
TAPU Singulart is a collective of independent and singular artists – Darko, Albert, Mr. Heart and Tiziano Pinton – who challenge conventional social paradigms, where divergence and non-conformity are often labeled as negative. TAPU reverses this perspective, celebrating diversity as a driver of hope and change.
Defined by themselves as “naive and hopeful,” the members of the collective transform their “artistic singularity” into a positive message for the future. Founded in 2013 after the first collective exhibition CANE! At the municipal kennel of Treviso, TAPU joins forces to support and promote the creativity of those who are on the margins, building a bridge between art and social inclusion.
Riera Studio
Atelier and Art Gallery
It is an artistic project created by RIERA STUDIO with the aim of promoting and supporting singular artistic expressions that share a stylistic distance from the existing visual culture based on academic or intellectual training and whose creators have no knowledge of issues intellectual and artistic. The art created in this context, usually summarized in the related categories of Art Brut and Outsider Art, each with its own conceptual characteristics but with intermediate boundaries, are the field of our project.
Lisa binato
artist
Born in 1969, Lisa Binato lives painting as a vital necessity, a spark that illuminates her daily life. Part of the community of the Massignan Social Farm, she has been painting since 1998 transforming her inner world into art. Her works sensitively depict people encountered along the way, capturing their essence in distinctive traits.
After an initial technical approach with abstract compositions of letters, Lisa quickly felt the need to tell figurative stories. Her paintings reveal a deep humanity, freeing figures from conventions to return them to their most authentic and sincere essence.
Piano Infinito
Atelier
PIANO INFINITO is a social cooperative founded in 1993 in Montecchio Maggiore, residential and day center for people with mental and physical disabilities. Among the day activities, the art workshop that allows those who attend it to express themselves using languages other than verbal, this to facilitate a communication that exceeds the limits dictated by physical and mental disabilities. The common goal of all activities is to allow the person to express himself, without judgment.
leonardo zoccante
Child neuropsychiatrist
Child neuropsychiatrist, creator and promoter of Euritmie, a review of artistic, cultural and scientific events on the theme of Autism reached its 10th edition in 2025.
Coordinator of the Regional Centre for Autism Spectrum Disorders in Verona, since 2002 he has worked as a medical director at the UOC of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry of the Integrated University Hospital of Verona. Scientific referent for Autism Spectrum Disorders at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità for the region of Veneto.