“Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk” Paul Klee

Edited by Anna Lisa Ghirardi, Lisa Cervigni, with Federica Bolpagni.

Authors on display : Carla Accardi, Natale Addamiano, Afro Basaldella, Vincenzo Agnetti, Arcangelo, Agostino Arrivabene, Vasco Bendini, Valentina Berardinone, Giorgio Bertelli, Renato Birolli, Alighiero Boetti, Arturo Bonfanti, Clara Bonfiglio, Maurizio Bottarelli, Luigi Broggini, Corrado Cagli , Giuseppe Capogrossi, Aldo Carpi, Alik Cavaliere, Mino Ceretti, Pietro Coletta, Gianni Colombo, Pietro Consagra, Pirro Cuniberti, Dadamaino, Enrico Della Torre, Fulvio Di Piazza, Filippo De Pisis, Maurizio Donzelli, Piero Dorazio, Gianfranco Ferroni, Giosetta Fioroni , Lucio Fontana, Attilio Forgioli, Franco Francese, Antonella Gandini, Lino Gerosa, Giandante, Domenico Gnoli, Nedda Guidi, Piero Guccione, Renato Guttuso, Marco Jaccond, Eduard Habicher, Paolo Icaro, Angelo Landi, Massimo Levati, Osvaldo Licini, Carlo Lorenzetti , Piero Manai, Pompilio Mandelli, Giacomo Manzù, Andrea Mariconti, Vittorio Matino, Gino Meloni, Fausto Melotti, Franco Meneguzzo, Marco Mirzan, Albano Morandi, Ennio Morlotti, Antonio Mottolese, Anton Zoran Mušič, Giulia Napoleone, Mario Nigro, Nunzio, Claudio Olivieri, Claudio Parmiggiani, Pino Pascali, Remo Pasetto, Tullio Pericoli, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Concetto Pozzati, Mario Raciti, Regina, Bepi Romagnoni, Romolo Romani, Mimmo Rotella, Nicola Samorì, Antonio Sanfilippo, Antonio Scaccabarozzi, Emilio Scanavino, Livio Scarpella, Mario Schifano, Mario Sironi, Atanasio Soldati, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Graham Sutherland, Orfeo Tamburi, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Giorgio Tentolini, Armando Tomasi, Jorrit Tornquist, Ernesto Treccani, Valentino Vago, Tino Vaglieri, Grazia Varisco, Emilio Vedova, Claudio Verna, Alberto Viani , Gianfranco Zappettini.

On the occasion of the forty years since the birth of the Civic Collection of Drawings of Salò, MuSa offers a large exhibition dedicated to the Collection which boasts a precious collection of drawings. The Collection, founded in 1983, currently consists of more than 800 works on paper by contemporary artists, with particular interest in Italian art from the Second World War to the present day.

In this exhibition a selection of more than 100 works is presented, including important contemporary artists, so that the public can appreciate their technical and stylistic qualities.

The Brescian sculptor Roberto Ciroli will create site-specific installations in each room, creating an evocative itinerary in dialogue with the papers of the Collection. Its curious characters will walk suspended on wires as if in a dance between works, stimulating the visitor to follow this common thread.

The Civica Raccolta del Disegno was born in 1983 from the idea of Pino Mongiello, then councilor for culture, the artist Attilio Forgioli and the art critic Flaminio Gualdoni, with the initial contribution of some private supporters. The first nucleus of the Collection is in fact made up of the donation of works acquired by supporters, progressively increased by purchases and donations from artists and collectors.

In the 80s and 90s, in addition to periodic exhibitions of acquisitions, personal exhibitions were held and conferences on contemporary Italian art were promoted. In the following years, a significant selection of the works was exhibited at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Gazzoldo degli Ippoliti (Mn), at the Museum of Modern Art Galleria Klatovy (Czech Republic), with which a cultural exchange took place, at Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone (Mi), at the Permanente Museum of Milan, at the Artists' House of Tenno (Tn), at the Civic Art Gallery of Civitanova Marche (MC) and at Palazzo Martinengo in Brescia. The institution, which has achieved a permanent character, also following the agreement for its management, stipulated with the Province of Brescia in 1989, has a warehouse, an archive and an exhibition section at the MuSa. Its task is to establish a public collection fund of works mainly on paper and promote their study and use.

The Collection today consists of more than 800 works by contemporary artists, with particular interest in Italian art from the post-World War II period to today. The Steering Committee is made up of members appointed by the Municipality and the Province of Brescia, by the Mayor of Salò, who chairs it, and by a conservator-curator.