Exhibition of monumental sculptures by the celebrated sculptor Helidon Xhixha in Boboli Gardens.
This exhibition, entitled Helidon Xhixha At Random, has been curated by Eike Schmidt, Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, in conjunction with art critic Diego Giolitti. In a spectacular layout involving fifteen monumental installations and sculptures spread out over Boboli Gardens and the city of Florence, Helidon Xhixha explores the concept of chaos and order, his work a tribute to the way in which these concepts have been addressed down the ages not only in philosophy and in the arts (sacred geometry) but also in the natural world.
Their surfaces glistening like mirrors, the works merge into their surrounding environment, pursuing a sophisticated intellectual and aesthetic investigation that sinks its roots in the 16th and 17th centuries and offering a new take on the theme of the interaction between art and nature that was so close to the heart of the Medici family's artists, who interpreted it with spectacular fountains and mesmerising grottoes in those centuries.