The idea of the kandINskij Project sparked while reading the pages of "Concerning the Spiritual in Art", a book written by the abstract painter Vasilij Kandinskij in 1910, illustrating his theories about aesthetic experiences, artistic creation and human understanding of art. The artist's synesthetic thought, based on the connections he perceived between colours and musical instruments, led him to develop a theory of artistic spirituality that strikingly echoes with the concept of inclusion as promoted by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006). By recognising how every person has their own way of resonating with an artwork, and their own preferred artistic language, Kandinskij brings forth diversity as a source of connection and meaning in life. We took his words as the main inspiration of our project, trying to expand his vision on art to achieve full participation of all people in everyday life contexts, including the fruition of arts and culture.
"All means are sacred which are called for by the inner need. [...] Such a grammar of painting can only be temporarily guessed at, and should it ever be achieved, it will be not so much according to physical rules [...] as according to the rules of the inner need, which are of the soul". (Kandinskij, 1989/1910, p. 58)