It all begins in Shanghai, a few weeks after Amalart was founded. Thanks to the meeting with Rosanna Ossola, who works with FYR Gallery between Florence and Shanghai, six young Italian artists exhibit in China for the first time: Lorenzo Sala, Lorenza Cavalli, Aldo Flecchia, Alessandro Vianello, Guido Mori Ubaldini and Scilla Felici. Photography, painting, sculpture and digital art, in the spaces of one of the city's artist studio districts.
The Italian Cultural Institute in Shanghai grants its patronage and takes part in the opening: for a project that has only just begun, it is an important first recognition. The audience is made up of collectors, curious visitors and other artists, and from these encounters come the first contacts with the city's galleries.
It is a small beginning, and Amalart still regards it as the starting point of everything. From that first group exhibition a path takes shape that, over the years, will move from galleries to fairs, from exhibitions to institutions, all the way to the Salotto Italia–Cina and the Leonardo da Vinci Museum Sanya.
Ten years later, back in Shanghai: the Huangpu–Expo round table →
