Children, Art, Artists: The expressive languages of children, the artistic language of Alberto Burri
Children, Art, Artists: The expressive languages of children, the artistic language of Alberto Burri
Publisher : Reggio Children
Published: 2008
This catalogue is designed to offer a “guided” tour of the exhibit entitles “ the expressive languages of Children, the Artistic Language of Alberto Burri”, Which included works by children ranging in age from infant-toddler centre to the elementary school.
We decided to published the materials as they were presented in the exhibit, with the addition of a few general reflections as an introduction to each project and brief comments during the project descriptions where it seemed necessary in order to clarify the documentation displayed and to examine it in more depth.
Along with the texts of the exhibit, the catalogue includes a number of essays discussing the relationships between schools and the city, children, and art and pedagogy and the atelier.
We feel that this structure will make it possible to talk about the ideas presented in the exhibit in different places and contexts, communicating an approach of children to art and artists that we feel is interesting for the world of schools and the world of museums, enabling an exchange of different points of view.
These choices were made to ensure that the catalogue would be consistent with the overall project, which was primarily a project of professional formation and development for teachers and atelieristas (from the infant-toddler centre through middle school), on a theme that is delicate, important, and necessary: the encounter between children and the poetic languages. We feel that this dialogue can promote a kind of knowledge that is more human and more complete.
