The Sculptor's Drawing - Museo Novecento

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21April 2018

12July 2018

Museo Novecento

First Floor

The first of a series of exhibitions that will focus on drawing as a creative expression, “Father and Mother of all arts”.

The Museo Novecento launches a multi-year exhibition project that is based on the idea of drawing in relation to other artistic disciplines or sciences. On the occasion of the first exhibition “The sculptor’s drawing” – located in the rooms on the first floor of the Museo Novecento, now transformed into a new exhibition space – graphic works signed by Adolfo Wildt, Jacques Lipchitz, David Smith, Louise Bour will be presented.

From the early years of the twentieth century to the present day, to account for the artistic creativity in the “home” of the sculptor and in different eras: from the “symbolist” tests of Adolfo Wildt (Milan, 1868-1931), master of Fontana and Melotti, to those cubists by Jacques Lipchitz (Druskininkai, Lithuania, 1891-Capri, 1973) to the sign-gestural inventions of David Smith (Decatur, Indiana, 1906-Bennington, 1965), the leading sculptor of the generation of Abstract Expressionism, and up to the preparatory drawings by Rachel Whiteread (Ilford, 1963), a young heir to the great Anglo-Saxon plastic tradition, for which “drawings are the daily work diary”.

Luciano Fabro in studio 1965 (Tondo e rettangolo – Struttura ortogonale – Buco) ph Nogaro © Archivio fabro.

Louise Bourgeois.

The path is completed by the drawings of Louise Bourgeois (Paris, 1911-New York, 2010), whose graphic verve drags psychosis and obsessions typical of her sculpture on paper; the private and poetic ones by Luciano Fabro (Turin, 1936-Milan, 2007), for whom drawing is a gymnastics of the hand and mind, of touch and gaze; those of Rebecca Horn (Michelstadt, Hesse, Germany, 1944), who has always been obsessed with drawing interpreted as an immediate and free artistic manifestation.

Alongside the works, in some cases sculptures will be exhibited, as well as documentation materials (films and documentaries on each of the seven artists) that will contextualize the drawings both within the research and practice of individual artists, and in a broader reflection on the artistic process. and on the relationship between invention and esecution.

Rebecca Horn

Rachel Whiteread from the series ‘First Women’ by Anita Corbin.

The sculptor’s drawing thus aims to analyze and put into play the foundations and models of the artistic experience and more generally of modern and contemporary visual cultures through signs, drawings, sketches and sketches that from the beginning of the 1900s reach the contemporary age. . Research, analysis and study of images are all the basis of this exhibition project which in its first phase will involve sculptor artists of different generations and cultures, but which in its subsequent developments will alternate monographic focuses with further samples and above all with new forays into the fields of painting and architecture, science and literature.