Return to the Renaissance

With great excitement we present to the public the exhibition Return to the Renaissance within the spaces of A60 Contemporary Art Space Florence. We have decided to offer for the first time, 28 works created with mixed media on canvas by very young Chinese artists: in fact, these are 28 children between the ages of 3 and 11. The limited space of the A60 Gallery in Florence will become on the occasion of this new exhibition, an exciting picture gallery where the 28 works will become 28 different windows on creativity. The vivid emotions of the very young Chinese artists will be able to captivate the eyes of visitors who, through shapes and colors, will be able to cross the threshold of creativity, which in children is a powerful, precious, illuminating fire.

Return to the Renaissance is a new, exciting, sometimes dazzling journey taken by 28 Chinese children who were confronted with some images from art history: they looked at them with their own eyes, guided by an art master, releasing their emotions among gesture, shapes and figures. In this way 28 different worlds were born, 28 composite, colorful, textural, gestural, light and strong works: surprising. In some cases it is easy to recognize the figurative references while in others, the gestural vortex leads our eye to other thoughts, but none of these works leaves us indifferent.

In the 20th century, some great masters showed a special interest in signs and the creative world generated by children: Picasso, Kandinsky, Klee and Dubuffet are just some of the great artists sensitive to this.

Knowing how to observe, grasp, and not forget the spontaneity of children's gestures is a valuable lesson that many artists have failed to understand, focused and overwhelmed often by the harried desire to bring forth art forms too tied to classical traditions.

Return to the Renaissance is a precious journey, then, a journey capable of opening new windows on the road of creativity to remind us that the most authentic art, perhaps, is not hidden behind forms tied to certain traditions but lives and breathes in the free gesture of the poetry of feeling.