Infinita Infanzia

Group Show

23.03.2024 - 09.06.2024

Palazzo Collicola, Musei Civici di Spoleto
Curated by Saverio Verini

The exhibition project is inspired by the essay La stagione fatata, written by Verini and published by the Castelvecchi publishing house. Starting from the book, the exhibition expands the research on the theme of childhood through numerous works by internationally recognized contemporary artists, including authors not mentioned in the publication, thus giving the exhibition an autonomous character. The exhibition aims to show how childhood is not simply a golden age, but a multifaceted phase of life, between discovery and trauma, play and disobedience, carefreeness and anxieties. Each room will ideally address an aspect related to childhood: from play to nostalgic remembrance, from the school context to the "wild" and disobedient character of childhood (made exemplary by the character of Pinocchio), touching also on the relationship with the adult/parent and the traumas associated with this complex season of life. A phase that too often tends to be flattened, but of which the artists were able to offer unexpected, intimate and poetry-laden readings. (...)