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Exhibition Opening and DJ Set<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FREE ADMISSION
November 22, 2025, 7:00 PM \u2013 10:00 PM
Cittadella degli Archivi, Via Ferdinando Gregorovius 15, Milan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Timeline: 1993-2025
The Drawn Life of Vedovamazzei
Curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist duo Vedovamazzei, founded in 1991 and composed of Stella Scala and Simeone Crispino, has always looked around with curiosity and irony. To remember what struck them on TV, in the streets, or in newspapers, they used paper, colored pencils, and watercolors \u2014 not only because mobile phones didn\u2019t exist at the beginning of their career, but because drawing is, above all, a way of seeing. Those who draw are forced to observe details that escape the photographer, and while drawing, the gaze evolves. Since then, they have never stopped recording and analyzing the surrounding world through drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What they find special, interesting, shocking, tragic, dark, painful, or incredible is drawn in their sketchbooks or on loose sheets of paper. The subject of one of their drawings might be an imaginary Pinocchio comforting a distraught Mickey Mouse among torn tree trunks, or the nape of a friend with her hairstyle rendered in graphite, or a portrait of a fellow artist, such as Stefano Arienti. They draw everywhere \u2014 under a beach umbrella, while traveling, or at their desk in front of a newspaper \u2014 portraying their daily life for over thirty years. On their papers, one can find the death of American artist Dash Snow, a portrait of Patti Smith in concert, Stella stepping out of the shower, friends lounging on deckchairs, a pigeon at the window, a dead plant \u2014 their reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time, the archive of their experiences, thoughts, and daily events is presented to the public at the Cittadella degli Archivi, the largest collection of paper documents in Milan\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside the exhibition, the yellow neon from 2018 lights up the autumn sky of Niguarda \u2014 it reproduces Boccioni\u2019s signature as written by Marinetti on the occasion of a sale of one of his works to the City of Milan, a document unearthed in the Cittadella and transformed by Vedovamazzei into an artwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exhibition Opening and DJ Set FREE ADMISSIONNovember 22, 2025, 7:00 PM \u2013 10:00 PMCittadella degli Archivi, Via Ferdinando Gregorovius 15, Milan Open map Timeline: 1993-2025The Drawn Life of VedovamazzeiCurated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli The artist duo Vedovamazzei, founded in 1991 and composed of Stella Scala and Simeone Crispino, has always looked around with curiosity and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edition-2025-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milanodrawingweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milanodrawingweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milanodrawingweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milanodrawingweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milanodrawingweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milanodrawingweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6603,"href":"https:\/\/milanodrawingweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milanodrawingweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milanodrawingweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milanodrawingweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}