ISOLART
  GALLERIA

Exhibition

Xuewen Mao

Xiaojun Mo

Juanjuan Pan

Qiao Sun

Haixia Xu

Kai Wang

Unfinished Forms – Invitational Exhibition of Italian Contemporary Artists 2025 brings together a selection of Italian artists who treat the artwork as an open process rather than a finished product. Across painting, sculpture, installation and media art, the exhibition explores incompleteness as a conscious strategy: a way to acknowledge that identities, narratives and spaces are constantly being rewritten. Instead of offering final answers, these works invite viewers to inhabit a dynamic, unfinished field of possibilities.

EXHIBITION DATE

06/12/2024- 12/12/2024

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LOCATION

ISOLART GALLERY

VIA DEI NERI 11, FLORENCE

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Curator: Yuanqi Cao

Co-curators: Francesca Xue Rui & Rossella Tesi

Florence, Italy – 2025 – ISOLART Gallery is pleased to announce Unfinished Forms – Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Artists 2025, a curated project that brings together six artists – Xuewen Mao, Xiaojun Mo, Juanjuan Pan, Qiao Sun, Haixia Xu and Kai Wang – under a shared reflection on what it means to keep form, image and narrative deliberately “in progress”.

Taking its title from the idea of the incompiuto – the unfinished as an active position rather than a lack – the exhibition explores artworks not as final products, but as open processes that hold together doubt, fracture and possibility. Across painting, photography, moving image, drawing and mixed media, the participating artists reveal traces of construction, erasure and transformation, inviting viewers into a field where nothing is completely fixed.

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.

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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.

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​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.