FLORENCE - Gian Burrasca, the covers of the Sunday Newspaper and the works of the great artists of the twentieth century who recall the world of childhood such as Balla, Carrà and Rosai: this is what 'Children Forever! Childhood and illustration in early twentieth century art ', exhibition hosted at the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence from 9 July to 14 September.
The exhibition, which marks the restart of the museum's activities after the stop for Covid and is curated by Nadia Marchioni and Arabella Natalini, also collects works by Balla, Balduini, Cambellotti, Carlini, Carrà, Conti, Levasti, Rosai , Soffici, Viani, alongside the rarer ones by Alberto Magri, who, overwhelmed by the force of futurism, found in the world of childhood a safe haven of fascination and inspiration. And there is the contemporary art of Sandra Tomboloni that proposes, after a century, that not obvious way of reading reality.
