Workshop
Adult Art Class: Drawing from the Inside Out
29 Apr 2019
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
London, United Kingdom
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Manlio Rho, Untitled (Composition), 1937-38, Collezione Ramo, Milan
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Umberto Boccioni, Against the Light, 1910, Collezione Ramo, Milan.
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Giuseppe Capogrossi, Untitled (SURFACE ac/307/g), 1958-62, Collezione Ramo, Milan.
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Fabio Mauri, End Screen, 1960s, Collezione Ramo, Milan.
Exhibition
Who's Afraid of Drawing? Works on Paper from the Ramo Collection
17 Apr 2019 – 23 Jun 2019
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Adult: £7.50, Concessions £5.50, National Art Pass £3.75. Free entry to under 18s and full-time students with valid NUS card.
Address
- 39a Canonbury Square
- London
- N1 2AN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Highbury & Islington
Event map
This exhibition – the first to present a selection of drawings from the Ramo Collection outside Italy – will explore the discipline as more than just a ‘preparatory’ activity, considering it as an art form in its own right.
About
Milan’s Ramo Collection brings together outstanding works from some of the most important movements in twentieth-century Italian art, including images by Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Alighiero Boetti, Pino Pascali and many more. Assembled by the late Milanese entrepreneur Giuseppe ‘Pino’ Rabolini, it is the largest private collection of modern and contemporary Italian art on paper, comprising almost 600 works. Who’s Afraid of Drawing? presents around 60 pieces from the collection, which is being shown in the UK for the first time. The exhibition explores drawing as more than just a preparatory activity, considering it as an art form in its own right.
Spanning the years 1900-1981, the show is organized thematically and considers the works in relation to the categories of abstraction, figuration, typographical experimentation and sculpture. It presents imagery created by artists better known for their works on canvas, such as Tancredi, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani and Domenico Gnoli, or for sculpture (Adolfo Wildt, Medardo Rosso, Marino Marini and Pietro Consagra). Artists including Manlio Rho, Bruno Munari and Piero Manzoni will be shown alongside works on paper by figures renowned for their Arte Povera installations, such as Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis and Giovanni Anselmo.
More information concerning the Ramo Collection can be found at www.collezioneramo.it
The exhibition is curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, Ramo Collection.
