Opening of the group exhibition “Toomanyrecordss. Disegni a 33 giri“,
with a musical performance by Reeve Schumacher
and a vinyl DJ set by Quite A Village
Free admission with reservation
November 21, 2025, 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Casa degli Artisti, Via Tommaso da Cazzaniga, Corso Garibaldi 89/A, Milan
Toomanyrecordss. Drawings at 33 RPM
curated by More Projects and Irina Zucca Alessandrelli
For the fifth edition of Milano Drawing Week, curator Irina Zucca Alessandrelli (Collezione Ramo) has invited Davide Bertocchi and Sergio Verastegui (More Projects, Paris) to present their project TOOMANYRECORDSS, which asks each participant to intervene on the cover of a 33 RPM vinyl record.
The records given to each artist are carefully selected and purchased in vintage markets by Bertocchi and Verastegui, based on the style and practice of each participant, who is then free to reinterpret the cardboard sleeve. The fifty-five record covers presented here are the result of invitations to both national and international artists—some from the existing Toomanyrecordss archive and others created specifically for Milano Drawing Week 2025.
The 33 RPM record thus becomes a catalyst for works on paper, counterpointed by a performance from American musician and artist Reeve Schumacher, who performs a score he has drawn directly onto vinyl. Using a precision cutter, Schumacher carves mathematically arranged patterns onto the record, generating a sound quite literally handmade. With his project Sonic Braille—halfway between drawing and musical experimentation—Schumacher creates a sonic experience that is at once meditative and tumultuous, transcending genre boundaries yet perhaps best described as analog techno.
REEVE SCHUMACHER (Minneapolis, 1981) is a visual artist and musician. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Miami, he moved to Arles in 2010, where he co-founded LHOSTE, a space dedicated to contemporary art and experimental sound. Through his project Sonic Braille, Schumacher manually engraves the surface of vinyl records, transforming their grooves into tactile sound reliefs that the turntable translates into music. This approach transcends genre boundaries and is described by the artist as “art-brut-techno,” emphasizing the analog and handcrafted nature of the sound.
QUITE A VILLAGE. Sounds for wooden legs – After 14 years of nights under the name Soul Finger, Stefano Tamagni and Andrea Testa founded a village that’s sometimes calm, sometimes a whirlwind of chaos, noise, and excitement — a beautiful mess, really. Quite A Village love old music — a lot — and weird music too. Passionate about vinyl records, especially 45s, they throw parties in Milan, across Italy, and occasionally around Europe — in clubs, basements, and impromptu pirate gatherings in parks.
The music they spin from all over the world is messy, offbeat, and out of time: Odd Soul tunes, tipsy Funk, mischievous Calypso, crooked Garage, Latin, Disco (but not too much), and other strange gems mostly produced between the ’60s and ’80s.
One certainty: you’ll dance and you’ll sweat.