Rimini, the Drawing Biennial returns from April to July

The “return to travel” is the theme of the fourth edition of the Drawing Biennale which returns to Rimini from 20 April to 28 July with 12 simultaneous exhibitions displaying a thousand drawings. From the notebooks of Happy Giani to those of Lorenzo Mattotti, from eighteenth-century watercolors to the twentieth century Thayahtfrom Piranesi’s engravings to the drawings of Morandi, Fontana, Fautrier to reach contemporary artists.

The Biennial will be held in the symbolic places of Rimini such as the city museum, Castel Sismondo, Gambalunga Library, Palazzo del Fulgor. Furthermore, the open circuit, an expression of direct and interactive dialogue with the city and its territory, which includes other exhibitions in private and public spaces (galleries, artists’ and architecture studios, bookshops).

There will therefore be 12 exhibitions at the same time with drawings coming from international institutions, such as theRoyal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid and come on Picardy Regional Contemporary Art Fund and from private collections such as Rivi studioThe formula of the event is the one already tested in previous editions, with parallel and joint exhibitions, meetings with specialists, scholars and journalists, readings, conferences, performances, lessons, art talks, and educational workshops around drawing in all its meanings .

“After the house, the table, the thoughts, the papers and the projects accumulated during the pandemic, we have therefore returned to the journey again, to putting one step after another because without the meeting life seems suspended, postponed, and everything this changed us, the organizers explain on their website. What has been imagined, the trajectories and sequences on the maps, from small-scale worlds now return to the dimension of everyday tools, a portrait of the visible, putting us in relation with what is other than us”.

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“For these reasons we thought that the right theme to restart the Biennale Disegno was a return to travel. What the artists have produced in this epochal time, but also what, in past centuries, they have expressed before, during and after their travelling, their training, their need to know, becomes the main object of the fourth international exhibition of the drawing”.