The first edition of Milano Drawing Week kicks off: the annual event dedicated to drawing and works on paper

From November 20 to 28, 2021, the first edition of Milano Drawing Week will be held in Milan, curated by Collezione Ramo: a new annual event dedicated to drawing and works on paper sponsored by the City of Milan|Cultura. The event consists of a fifteen-stage journey through the city dedicated to drawing, including contemporary artists and masters of the 20th century. For nine days, the dialogue between modern and contemporary passes through works on paper, in a series of exhibitions realized in collaboration with museums and galleries of the Milanese urban network.

For the occasion, Collezione Ramo is making available to a circuit of Milanese galleries and institutions some works on paper by 20th-century Italian artists. The invitation, addressed to one artist per space, is to identify a work from the collection and place it in dialogue with their own research.

The itinerary of the event kicks off at the Gabinetto di Disegno of Milan’s Castello Sforzesco and then involves Cabinet Studiolo, Castiglioni, Francesca Minini, Galera San Soda, Galleria Fumagalli, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, kaufmann repetto, Loom Gallery, M77, Mega, OPR Gallery, Schiavo-Zoppelli Gallery and Studio Guenzani.

Thus, works by contemporary artists Riccardo Beretta, Marco Pio Mucci, Miss Goffetown, Dennis Oppenheim, Francesco Simeti, Marco Belfiore, Marcello Maloberti, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Marco Andrea Magni, Braco Dimitrijevic, Costanza Candeloro, and Ettore Tripodi are exhibited, Andrea Sala and Stefano Arienti, which dialogue with those of the great masters of the 20th century, such as Domenico Gnoli, Filippo de Pisis, Carol Rama, Mario Merz, Enrico Baj, Alighiero Boetti, Giorgio Morandi, Carla Accardi, Luciano Fabro, Giorgio de Chirico, Dadamaino and Ugo La Pietra.

The collaboration with the Gabinetto dei Disegni (Drawings Cabinet) of the Castello Sforzesco allows for a further comparison with ancient drawing, thanks to the exhibition Tiepolo, Canaletto and the masters of the Venetian 18th century, curated by Francesca Mariano and Eleonora Scianna, running in the Halls of the old Spanish Hospital until December 19, 2021.

The exhibition, during the days of Milano Drawing Week, will welcome as a loan from the Ramo Collection a tenuous ink landscape by Domenico Gnoli, akin to the capricci of Tiepolesque memory.

" Milano Drawing Week aims to shed light on drawing, a silent but revolutionary medium, still little known and increasingly irreplaceable today," says Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of the Ramo Collection.

Beginning in the early twentieth century, the Ramo Collection follows the traces on paper of the major representatives of Italian art movements and great talents outside the chorus. The intent is to document with works on paper, not only with drawings, but also with artworks on paper (watercolors, collages, gouaches, pastels), the evolution of each stylistic figure. It is intended to show not only the museum masterpieces that make an artist recognizable, but also the small anecdotal evidence, sketches, notes and attempts that led to the birth of a sign that became recognizable.

Participation and access to the exhibitions are free.

A map and schedule are available on the Milan Drawing Week website .

Image: Carla Accardi, Chiaro-scuro No. 6 (1991; India ink, pen and watercolor on paper, 23.9 x 32.9 cm) Courtesy of Collezione Ramo, Milan.

The first edition of Milano Drawing Week kicks off: the annual event dedicated to drawing and works on paper

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