Biennale Disegno Rimini

Second edition: 'Profiles of the world, from Guido Reni to Francis Bacon, from Andrea Pazienza to Kiki Smith'

Fom 23rd April to 10th July 2016
Exhibitions

About two thousand drawings by famous artists, from the sixteenth century to contemporary times, are on display in Rimini - works coming from important Italian and foreign private collections and prestigious public collections become the protagonists of an unique event in Italy.
Starting from 23rd April until 10th July 2016, the initiative 27 exhibitions are exhibitted in institutional venues such as the City Museum 'Luigi Tonini', the modern art gallery FAR - Fabbrica Arte Rimini, the Palazzo del Podestà, the Foyer of the Galli Theatre, the Music Institute 'G.Lettimi', Sismondo Castle and the Oratory of St. Girolamo.
As in the previous edition, the Biennale Disegno includes an Open Circuit with exhibitions set up in libraries, antique shops and art galleries.
In the space Cantiere Disegno, the pencils are active with forty artists who will enliven the over forty rooms of the new space of the City Museum, Ala nuova.

Info

Place: 
Rimini, several venues
Entrance: 
€ 10; reduced € 8

Programme


The exhibitions:
 
- RIMINI CITY MUSEUM, via Tonini 1
“Profiles of the world” - the human landscape from Guido Reni to Kiki Smith
curated by Alessandra Bigi Iotti, Marinella Paderni, Massimo Pulini, Giulio Zavatta

“La linea continua” - drawings of the City Museums in Reggio Emilia from Lelio Orsi to Omar Galliani
curated by Alessandra Bigi Iotti, Alessandro Gazzotti, Elizabetta Farioli, Giulio Zavatta

“Disegni dei nuovi mondi dal Fondo Des Verges” - (Drawings of the new worlds by Fondo Des Verges)
curated by Rosita Copioli and Paola Del Bianco

“Federico Fellini erotic drawings” - studies for Casanova
curated by Giovanni Tiboni

Fabrizio Corneli – “Luce fra luci” (Light among lights)
from the City Museum

“La scultura disegnata” - the releif work designed by Agostino di Duccio from the Sforzesco Castle
in the Sala Bellini

- ALA NUOVA, space of the City Museum, via Tonini 1
“Cantiere Disegno” -  forty artists on display in the rooms of contemporary art
curated by Annamaria Bernucci, Andrea Losavio, Massimo Pulini

- FAR, Rimini Art Factory, Palazzo del Podesta, Piazza Cavour
“Profiles of the world” – the natural story from Claude Lorrain to Giuseppe Penone
curated by Alessandra Bigi Iotti, Marinella Paderni, Massimo Pulini, Giulio Zavatta

“L’acqua disegna” (The water draws)
curated by Franco Pozzi in collaboration with Romagna Acque

“Una nuova modernità” (A new modernity) -  Architectures by Pier Carlo Bontempi
curated by Fausto Battistel, Alessia Gattei (Italia Nostra Rimini)

- THE SISMONDO CASTLE, Piazza Malatesta
“I Marziani” (the Martians) – art works on paper from the twentieth century of the Ramo Collection
curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli

“Profiles of the sky” - The dome of Loreto in the drawings by Pomarancio and Giuseppe Maccari
curated by Vito Punzi

“I Sironi dei Sironi” - the study collection
curated by Claudio Spadoni

“Domenico Rambelli, il volume dei segni”  (the volume of signs)
curated by Annamaria Bernucci

Galileo Chini - drawings from the family collection

Orlando Orlandi - graphics and advertising

Giancarlo Valentini – “La libertà del dialogo” (Freedom of the dialogue)

- PALAZZO GAMBALUNGA, via Gambalunga 27
Pino Pascali – “Fasto e leggerezza del disegno” (splendor and lightness of the design)
curated by Eleonora Frattarolo and Alessandro Giovanardi, in the Galleria dell’Immagine

Tullio Pericoli
curated by Eleonora Frattarolo, in the Gambalunga Library

- THE GALLI THEATRE, Piazza Cavour
Andrea Pazienza "... credevo fosse uno sprazzo, era invece un inizio” (I thought it was a flash, but it was rather a beginning)
curated by Egisto Quinti Seriacopi and Marina Comandini

“Eroico Manoscritto” - Heroic Manuscript
curated by Claudio Cavalli in collaboration with the Malatesta Library in Cesena

“Cenacolo Belgioioso” - portraits and caricatures of the Renaissance in Milan
curated by Fernando Mazzocca

“Umanizzata e amorevole forma” (Humanized and loving form). The Architect Luigi Poletti
curated by Fausto Battistel, Sonia Fabbrocino, Alessia Gattei (Italia Nostra Rimini)

- THE AUGUSTIANO COMPLEX, via Cairoli
“Vie di Dialogo” (Streets of Dialogue) - Luca Caccioni and Massimiliano Fabbri
curated by Claudia Collina, in collaboration with Institute for Artistic, Cultural and Natural Heritage of the Emilia-Romagna Region

- THE MUSIC INSTITUTO "G.Lettimi", via Cairoli
"Re) Presenting music: Intorno al di-segno musicale" by Emiliano Battistini

- ORATORIO S. GIOVANNI, via Dante 18
Cesare Pronti - monochromes and drawings
curated by Alessandro Giovanardi and Ivana Balducci


... and in hinterland

- MUSAS, Historic and Archaeologic Museum
via della Costa 26 - Santarcangelo di Romagna 
“Souvenir d'Amerique” within the CRISTALLINO - Places for visual arts
artistic directors Francesco Bocchini, Claudio Ballestracci
curated by Roberta Bertozzi

- GALLERY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
Malatesta Castle, Piazza Malatesta 1 - Longiano
“I segni nascosti” (The hidden signs) - Notebooks and albums of Fabrizio Clerici, Pericles Fazzini, Mario Mafai, Roberto Melli, Antonietta Raphaël, Toti Scialoja, Guido Strazza. 1905-1980
curated by Giuseppe Appella, Flaminio Balestra, Massimo Balestra
Tito Balestra Onlus Foundation

Additional information

Guided tours are available of the main exhibitions in the circuit of Biennale Disegno: Castel Sismondo, FAR gallery and the City Museum, Saturday and Sunday at 5 pm. Info: 0541.53399 (IAT tourist information office).