During the 70's Remo Bianco began his research on the semantic values of children's creativity.

He was fascinated by the rich imaginative language of children which becomes an incessantly creative and poetic activity, with little realistic contents, projected into the universe of imagination. For this reason, Bianco created a cycle of works known as “elementary art”.

The artist's existential discomfort before a society able to curb the creative strength of the individual from childhood, forcing him into its own patterns of expression and behaviour, is expressed by the “reconstruction” of a language which adopts the themes of childhood figures, forced to the rigid geometry of compositional structure and the clarity of a flat, dense painted background which clearly defines its forms.

The way society conditions each individual, often violently, at different stages of his development, is denounced by the obsessive repetition of images, translated into an encoded repertory, symbol of a childhood condition already regulated in its poetic and creative expression.

Bianco, of course, goes beyond the purely linguistic analysis of children's artistic expression and goes on to unmask the forms of conditioning which society imposes on each individual.

Consequently childhood epitomizes a human condition that is anything but free and far from being a mythical kingdom of imagination.

(G. Belli, A. Marchionne, Remo Bianco, ed. Puntoelinea, Milano, 1987)