From 10 May to 8 September 2014, the historic Medici Villa at Poggio a Caiano, one of the Medici sites declared to be part of the UNESCO "World Heritage" will become the setting for "counterpoints" of contemporary art: a series of works selected by the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art in Prato and presented on the ground floor of the villa.

The artwork by Tuscan artist Roberto Barni, Massimo Barzagli, Alberto Moretti and Gianni Ruffi, as well as a video by Chinese artist Yang Jiechang (created in nearby Carmignano) enter into a direct dialogue with the extraordinary heritage of this residence, which over the centuries has belonged to the houses of Medici, Habsburg-Lorraine, Bonaparte and Savoy. 

The exhibition winds its way from the entrance hall on the villa's ground floor into the little theatre and parlour, once the antechamber to the apartment of Bianca Cappello, leading into final hall of the Still Life Museum, representing the final era of Medici collecting. On the second floor, the exhibition continues in the Papier peints hall with the surprising presence of installations and multimedia works created in Tuscany over the last two decades, promoting the continuity and contiguity of  "world heritage" with works of contemporary art from an area rich in history and culture, one that has constantly collected and reworked the inheritance of its great past.