Bonvini 1909

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Via Tagliamento 1
20139 Milano MI

Exhibition extended until January 10, 2026
MON CLOSED
TUE-SAT 10.30-13.00 / 14.00-19.30
SUN CLOSED
(Check for any holiday closures on the website: bonvini1909.com)

ARTISTS:
Emi Ligabue
Alighiero Boetti (Collezione Ramo)

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Emi Ligabue answers questions from
Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of Collezione Ramo

What does drawing mean to you?
Drawing, along with the written word, is for me the first visualization of an idea.
It mainly serves to delimit spaces, imagine, and lay out a composition: it resembles a project, but more immediate and disorderly.

What materials, techniques, and creative processes do you use when working on paper?
I do not work only on paper, but I do not treat it simply as a support: it is a material in itself and often dictates the reasons and direction of the work.
I use papers of all kinds—colored, printed, worn, synthetic, papers that simulate other materials—each one requiring different approaches, tools, and techniques.

Why did you choose this work from Collezione Ramo?
I chose a frottage by Boetti because it resembles me, especially in relation to the works I selected for this exhibition: the same conceptual matrix (for him primarily, for me secondarily), the banality, the irrelevance of the subject, the quick and pseudo-mechanical handwork, indifferent to any assertion of “personal style.”

What value does dialogue with the Masters of the 20th century have for you?
I belong entirely to the 20th century, not only for chronological reasons.
It is a century that began with the fervor of the new, which developed all the expressive languages we deal with today, and which ultimately condemned us to the impossibility of moving forward without endlessly reusing its heritage.