"Biennale Disegno Rimini. Ritorno al viaggio."

Abstract

After the house, the table, the thoughts, the papers, and the projects accumulated during the pandemic, we have returned to the Journey again, to take one step after another. Life seems suspended and postponed without the encounter, which has changed us. What we have imagined, the trajectories and sequences on the maps, from the worlds on a small scale now return to the dimension of everyday tools, portraits of the visible, putting us in relation with what is other than us. For these reasons, we thought the suitable theme to restart the Drawing Biennale was a Return to the Journey. What the artists have produced in this epochal time and what they have expressed in the past centuries before, during, and after their travel, formation, and need to know becomes the main object of the fourth international drawing exhibition. In the recent past, we have understood that even going out with the dog, reaching the newsstand could be considered a journey, but the news has awakened us from our torpor by reminding us of the issue of the exodus, that some are still being forcibly displaced from their homes. Between these two opposites extends a range of declinations that touches on the lands of discovery and classification, the project and memory, geography and history, the vertical and the horizon.