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Scribbling and Doodling. From Leonardo da Vinci to Cy Twombly
Exhibition from 3rd March to 22nd May 2022
Opening of online ticketing from February 21st, 2022
By displaying works by masters from the early modern period – Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Titian, Bernini, etc. – next to those of major modern and contemporary artists – Picasso, Dubuffet, Henri Michaux, Helen Levitt, Cy Twombly, Basquiat, Luigi Pericle, and many others – the exhibition reconsiders chronological classifications and traditional categories of art history (such as margin and centre, official and non-official, classic and contemporary, artwork and document) and places the practice of scribbling at the heart of artistic making.
Exhibition designed and organised by the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici and by the Beaux-Arts in Paris
With the support of the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris
In partnership with the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome
Curators:
Francesca Alberti, Director of the Department of Art History at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, Professor of Art History at the University of Tours, CESR
Diane Bodart, Professor of Art History at Columbia University
Associate curator:
Philippe-Alain Michaud, Art Historian and Curator at the National Museum of Modern Art – Centre Pompidou, Paris
LUIGI PERICLE 