Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century

Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century
Studio Vandrasch Fotografia, Milan

Adolfo Wildt, Animantium Rex Homo, 1925. Graphite pencil and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas. Collezione Ramo, Milan.

The Menil Collection is pleased to present Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century, the first large-scale survey of twentieth-century Italian drawings mounted in the United States. The exhibition, presenting works largely selected from the Collezione Ramo in Milan, will be exclusively on view at the Menil Drawing Institute from November 14, 2020, through April 11, 2021.

Silent Revolutions will feature 70 drawings by Umberto Boccioni, Alighiero Boetti, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, Maria Lai, Carol Rama, and others. The works on view will be augmented with several drawings from the Menil’s own collection.

Event Information
Start Date: November 14, 2020
End Date: April 11, 2021
Venue: Menil Drawing Institute

Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century