Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century
from 14 November 2020 to 11 April 2021
Houston
Silent revolutions. Italian drawings from the Twentieth Century
The Menil Drawing Institute, in collaboration with Collezione Ramo, presents *Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century* from Saturday 14 November 2020 to Sunday 11 April 2021. This is the first major retrospective in the United States of 20th-century Italian drawing, curated by Edouard Kopp and Irina Zucca Alessandrelli.
Opened to the public in November 2018, the Drawing Institute forms part of the Menil Collection, a prestigious museum complex founded by John and Dominique de Menil in Houston, Texas. The Menil Drawing Institute is the only institution in the world dedicated to research and specifically designed to preserve and exhibit drawings under ideal conditions of light, humidity and temperature for their conservation. The exhibition Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century embodies the profound shared vision that unites the Drawing Institute with the Ramo Collection, an exceptional collection entirely dedicated to 20th-century Italian works on paper, comprising over six hundred drawings, including collages, watercolours, gouaches and pastels.
Silent Revolutions presents, for the first time in the United States, 68 drawings from the Ramo Collection, including works by Afro, Mirella Bentivoglio, Alighiero Boetti, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Domenico Gnoli, Jannis Kounellis and Carol Rama, accompanied by a number of drawings by Italian artists from the Menil Collection. The exhibition is organised by Edouard Kopp, chief curator at the Menil Drawing Institute, and Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of the Ramo Collection, with the patronage and support of the Italian Embassy in the United States and the Consulate General of Italy in Houston.
From Futurism onwards and throughout the 20th century, Italy gave rise to a series of revolutionary artistic movements, characterised by a very high level of innovation and which had significant repercussions on an international scale. Drawing served as the workshop in which Italian artists had the freedom to experiment with a wide range of materials and techniques to create new concepts and languages. Through drawing, Italian art of the last century engaged with the major themes of history and myth, language and subjectivity, the body, the modern city, space and abstraction.
Silent revolutions. Italian drawings from the Twentieth Century
Menil Drawing Institute, Houston
Brücke, anni '80
acrilico su carta
65 × 50 cm
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