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Milan, June 27 2019 – From 28 June to 8 September the GAM|Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan dedicates an exhibition to the painter and illustrator Andrea Ventura (born in Milan in 1968, lives and works in Berlin). A project born within the programming that GAM has reserved for contemporary artistic production for some years and which joins the exhibition initiatives inspired by the permanent collections.

Promoted by the Municipality of Milan | Culture and conceived by GAM, the exhibition is curated by Paola Zatti, curator in charge of the museum, with the collaboration of Alessandro Oldani and the critical contribution of Francesca Alfano Miglietti.

Set up in the rooms on the ground floor of Villa Reale, the exhibition features 140 works divided into 4 sections and, among these, the original plates created by Ventura to illustrate a series of stories inspired by GAM. The collection of these stories was later published in the volume "Musicisti, leoni e fontane" (Naples 2017) and has attracted significant interest, fitting into the wake of a very current publication that has entrusted some illustrators with the task of telling, with an unusual language, the events relating to some international museums (as in the case of the Musée d'Orsay).