Curated by Ramo Collection
In collaboration with and under the patronageof the City of Milan, Department of Culture.

The Ramo Collection presents the fourth edition of Milano Drawing Week, a 13-stage journey dedicated to drawing, among contemporary artists and masters of the last century.
For nine days, works on paper are the protagonists in a series of exhibitions in museums and galleries of the Milanese urban network.

The Ramo Collection, Italian Drawing of the 20th and 21st Centuries, presents, from Saturday 23 November to Sunday 1 December 2024, the fourth edition of Milano Drawing Week, an annual event realised in  and under the patronage of the Department of Culture of the City of Milan. The project takes form in a constellation of exhibitions spread across the Milanese territory, presenting the work of historicised artists
active on the current scene or emerging, with the aim of enhancing the production on paper and promoting its knowledge among an ever-widening public.

The project formula envisages the Ramo Collection opening up to the city, making available to cultural institutions and galleries a selection of works on paper by 20th century Italian artists. Artists of different origins and generations, active in the field of drawing, are invited to choose a work from this nucleus from the Ramo Collection, to be placed in dialogue with their own research within one of the 13 spaces involved.

The aim is to bring the great historical and artistic heritage preserved in the Collection into dialogue with the instances that nourish current research, also offering the public an opportunity to explore a little-visible medium that unites creatives of all disciplines, capable of speaking with immediacy to the entire public.

The route of the Milano Drawing Week 2024 involves 3 civic institutions such as the Castello Sforzesco and, for thefor the first time, the City of Milan’s Cittadella degli Archivi and Casa degli Artisti, joined by 10
art galleries from Milan and elsewhere: Ciaccia Levi, kaufmann repetto, Loom Gallery, Monica De Cardenas, Nashira Gallery, Settantaventidue, Spazio Lima, Vistamare, with the special participation of
APALAZZOGALLERY from Brescia and Ex Elettrofonica from Rome, two galleries that for the first time are participating participate by finding hospitality in the city.

Milano Drawing Week presents the work of artists Alexandra Barth (Malacky, Slovakia, 1989), Monia Ben Hamouda (Milan, 1991), Sergio Breviario (Bergamo, 1974), Corydon Cowansage (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1985), Giulia Dall’Olio (Bologna, 1983), Leonardo Devito (Florence, 1997), Tom Friedman (Louis Park, Minnesota, USA, 1953), Alex Katz (Brooklyn, New York, USA, 1927), Marco Paleari (Desio, 1998), Nathlie Provosty (Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 1981) in dialogue with those of great masters such as masters of the last century such as: Enrico Baj (Milan, 1924 – Vergiate, 2003), Irma Blank (Celle, Germany, 1934 – Milan, 2023), Alberto Burri (Città di Castello, 1915 – Nice, France, 1995), Domenico Gnoli (Rome, 1933 – New York, USA, 1970), Piero Manzoni (Soncino, 1933 – Milan, 1963), Fausto Melotti (Rovereto, 1901 – Milan, 1986), Mario Merz (Milan, 1925 – Turin, 2003), Michelangelo Pistoletto (Biella, 1933), Carol Rama (Turin, 1918 – Turin, 2015), Emilio Scanavino (Genoa, 1922 – Milan, 1986), in an exhibition route aimed at shedding new light on the expressive medium of drawing.

The project, entirely conceived and organised by Collezione Ramo, also includes the large exhibition Brazilian exhibition from the Paulo Bruscky archive, which for the first time involves an international curator, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, a solo exhibition by Manuel Scano Larrazàbal, the first produced by Collezione Ramo for the occasion and, as part of the exhibition Alberto Martini e la danza macabra, curata e prodotta dal Gabinetto dei Disegni nelle Salette della Grafica del Castello Sforzesco, sarà allestito il focus dedicato al dialogo tra le chine macabre di Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milano,1954) e Vincenzo Agnetti (Milano 1926 – 1980).

A palimpsest of collateral events, spread throughout the duration of the exhibition, from Saturday 23 November to Sunday 1 December, enriches the programme by including meetings open to the public with
international curators and workshops with artists and lecturers, exploring the infinite potential of the work on paper.
Also back for the second year is the Milano Drawing Week Prize, one of the very few awards dedicated to drawing in Italy, awarded to one of the participating contemporary artists. The Prize, supported entirely by
Gruppo Censeo, consists of a cash prize of €3,000 as an incentive for continued production on paper. The winner of the previous edition is the artist Umberto Chiodi, with the work Bestiario (2023).