Margarita Gluzberg & Fausto Melotti: Milano Drawing Week

Margarita Gluzberg & Fausto Melotti

21 – 29 November 2026
Off–site: Palazzo Archinto, Via dei Piatti 6, 20123 Milano

Drawing is a device for translation. The intricate system of references, knowledge, actions and thoughts that the artist generates and moves through is processed by a profoundly human mechanism to give rise to a singularity: the drawing. I also see drawing as an echo. Signs and forms are repeated, erased, inverted, expanded; they hide within one another only to re-emerge into visibility. Drawing has a fundamental relationship with sound: harmonic progressions, tonal modulations, the use of time and rhythm. In my practice, drawing can be both score and performance.
– Margarita Gluzberg

Alma Pearl is delighted to participate in the Milano Drawing Week with a solo presentation by Margarita Gluzberg, organised and curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of Collezione Ramo (Italian Drawings of 20th and 21st Century). Presented in dialogue with a historical work on paper by Fausto Melotti drawn from the collection, Gluzberg’s presentation explores the connections between musical structures and drawing. Executed using found pencils from the 1950s and 1960s, sequences, variations, and scales materialise as visual and spatial arrangements on paper. Different shades of colour, overlapping planes, and the modulation of the mark evoke the forces at play within a musical score, while their layered fields of colour recall the shifting intensities and ornamental rhythms of the Baroque.

Sound here also becomes a conduit to echoes of the past. The presentation takes place within Palazzo Archinto, the site of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s first commission outside Venice (c. 1730). Severely damaged during the Second World War, the palace lost Tiepolo’s frescoes in the bombing. Sited within this context, Gluzberg’s work explores how the polyphonic structures of memory, music and the passage of time can materialise into abstraction.

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