"TYNDALL" the 2nd Italian Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition
Exhibition
Xiaolin Bing
Mariana Cacciola
Conglan Chang
Yushan Cao
Maria Christidi
Yiying Chen
Yi Deng
Binhang Feng
Qing Li
Xianjun Liu
Yuxuan Liu
Jinshi Liu
Yujiao Luo
Ziling Lei
Junxian Pan
Walter Puppo
Roberto Pupi
Baerbel Reinhard
Duccio Ricciardelli
Alessandro Secci
Pietro Schillaci
Meihong Tao
Can Tang
Ying Tan
Margherita Verdi
Huaijin Wen
Hong Wu
Zhelan Xu
Zhiwei Xue
Lu Xie
Yinzhu Yao
Chunxuan(Kelvin)Yu
Weifeng Yang
Yachan Yuan
Yican Zhou
Andi Zhou & Siyuan Ma & Bo Bao
Siqi Zhang
Xiangling Zhang
Yan Zhang
Youli Zhang
On December 6th, 2024, at 18:00, 2024 "TYNDALL" the 2nd Italian Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, opened at ISOLART GALLERY in the heart of Florence. The exhibition is organized by ISOLART GALLERY and supported by Associazione Nazionale Di Belle Art D'Italia (ANBAITALIA) and Associazione Nomya. The venue is located in a centuries-old palace belonging to the Bagnesi Family, close to the Arno River, the Old Palace, the Uffizi Gallery and the Santa Croce Church, among other famous Florentine monuments. The exhibition brought together many renowned artists and scholars in Italy and around the globe, and was met with a great deal of excitement.
The exhibition "Tyndall" is inspired by the Tyndall effect. Dust is a microscopic element in life that is often overlooked, considered a symbol of chaos and waste, but it is also a witness to time, memory and traces of life. It prompts us to consider the possibility that those things we usually regard as waste may actually hold fragments of our experience. Under the artist's creationn, they are reinterpreted as traces of life and memory. When a beam of light passes through a medium containing tiny suspended particles, the light is scattered by these particles, creating a visible band of light that makes the light and shadow trails emerge in space. This phenomenon is often seen in situations where a beam of light penetrates dust, mist or smoke, symbolizing the momentary life and presence of tiny particles in the cosmos that are imbued with light. These dusts, made up of suspended particles and human skin cells, become, from the artist's point of view, carriers of hidden stories, recording the unseen moments of everyday life. It expresses the fact that human history is like tiny dust, although small and transient, it forms a long track in light and shadow, and becomes part of the long river of time. The Tyndall effect reveals the path of light through the particles, symbolizing the individual traces in the history of a moment and eternity, mirroring the subtle and unnoticeable connection between human beings and time, human beings and nature. It means that our traces in the earthly world, even if they are as tiny as dust, have a profound meaning due to the accumulation of time and history.
EXHIBITION DATE
06/12/2024- 12/12/2024
LOCATION
ISOLART GALLERY
VIA DEI NERI 11, FLORENCE
Curator: Yuanqi Cao
Co-curators: Francesca Xue Rui & Rossella Tesi
With dust and light as the clue, this exhibition brings together artworks of painting, photography, installation, video and trans-media art to develop an artistic dialogue around this theme. The exhibition venue is divided into two display areas, static and dynamic, according to the visual presentation of the works, and an immersive audio-visual space is specially set. In the dark environment, electronic screens, projections and video installations are interwoven to form this independent exhibition space.
Mr. Yuanqi Cao, curator of the exhibition, made a speech at the opening ceremony: "The 2rd Italian Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition is undoubtedly a continuation of the form and topic of the previous one. As always, this exchange exhibition brings together artists from Italy, France, Britain, the United States and other European and American countries, as well as Asian countries represented by China, to convey artistic radiation and images to the world, centering on Florence, in an attempt to evoke a more contemporary and broader artistic and social concern in this ancient Renaissance city."
The exhibition venue welcomes a number of important guests from the Italian art, literary and academic circles, including Mattino Marangoni, President of the Marangoni Foundation; Baerbel Reinhard, German artist and professor at New York University and the Marangoni Foundation for the Arts; Mario Cygielman, renowned Italian archaeologist, director of the Supervisory Board of Archaeology of Tuscany, and director of the Archaeological Restoration Center; Duccio Ricciardelli, the famous Italian director and producer; Roberto Pupi, the historian of contemporary art; Alessandro Secci, the pioneering Italian painter of contemporary art; Walter Puppo, the Italian master of contemporary installation art; Pietro Schillaci, the famous Italian photographer; Riccardo Biondi, famous Italian sculptor and representative artist of land art, Alessandra Jane, famous British designer and representative of Villa Schneiderf; Margherita Verdi, Italian female photographer, academic advisor and director of doctrine of Fondazione Marangoni; Marc Adam, scholar of European art history and art historian; Silvia Cappaccioli, renowned Italian architect and founder of Moota Spazio and Technology, and many others.
The central imagery of the exhibition, is redefined in the artists' works. It is not only a neglected microscopic element in life, but also a witness to record time and history. Through painting, installation, video and other art forms, the participating artists explore the position of the individual in the long river of history from a unique perspective: though as tiny as dust, the trajectory of life is profoundly portrayed in light and shadow. When light passes through a medium containing tiny suspended particles, it scatters clear bands of light. The artists use this phenomenon to express the transience and eternity of the individual's existence in the universe, and to explore the subtle and profound connection between man and nature, and man and time.
Among all the participating artists of this exhibition, Roberto Puppi, Yan Zhang and Yushan Cao have been nominated and won the Excellent Contribution Prize for "TYNDALL" the 2nd Italian Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition.
In this exhibition, Yushan Cao's abstract painting "池" features green as the dominant color. The artwork uses layered colors and flowing lines to create a serene yet vibrant atmosphere, guiding viewers into an inner world rich with natural imagery. Yan Zhang's piece, "心海," is based on red tones. Through intense colors and bold brushstrokes, it expresses emotional surges and inner turbulence, as if capturing a ceaseless tide within the depths of the heart. These two abstract works form a striking contrast in theme and style, showcasing contemporary artists' diverse expressions of their inner worlds.
