The Cesare Ghezzi Archive: children's drawings and the story of a teacher

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Abstract

The Archive includes drawings made by the pupils of the teacher Cesare Ghezzi, in the primary school of San Quirico, from 1958 to 1994. They are not the drawings of grass and flowers, of houses and bell towers, there are no clouds and the anthropomorphized sun that smile and greet. These are life experiences in which matter has descended into its essential icastic form. The schooling of the teacher is, indeed, a pedagogical path in which figurative iconism has helped children to see the surrounding world and to look at it in a free, critical and alternative to the common places of current looks. That painting gives shape to the intimate world of the child and to his so much unknowing.