Von Giorgio de Chirico bis Alighiero Boetti: Italienische Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung

The second exhibition in the Graphic Cabinet is dedicated to works on paper from Italy. It begins with two important graphic works by Giorgio de Chirico and ends with the album Insicuro noncurante which Alighiero Boetti in 1975 published a summary of his work. In between are more rare print graphics, including Giorgio Morandi’s great still life from 1928 as well as Piero Manzoni’s famous Tavole di accertamento of 1962 and Boetti 12 forme, which he took from the reports of violent occupations of territories on the front pages of newspapers.

These works provide a framework within which the works are on paper by Lucio Fontana to Arte Povera, which have remained in the shadow of the images and objects. This collection, which is now one of the most comprehensive of its kind that has achieved a museum, includes gouaches by Fontana from the first phase of its new concept of space, watercolors by Antonio Calderara and Giorgio Griffa, representative groups of works by Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone and installation works by Giovanni Anselmo, Giulio Paolini and Gilberto Zorio, each in their own way broach the notion of drawing.
The exhibition will be the second volume of the catalog of drawings acquisitions since 2000.