Few architects were as intensely occupied with making architecture itself the subject as Aldo Rossi (1932-1997). Drawing was second nature to him, as shown by his unending stream of drawings, which were often very poetic, colourful and humorous, and always recognisable in a continual interplay of visual analogies. Between 1973 and 1997, Rossi created a body of works that breathed new life into the genre of the architectural print. They combine poetic and professional aspects into visual associations, and give a personal view of the world of the architect.
The exhibition and the book Aldo Rossi. Opera Grafica. Incisioni, litografie, serigrafie / Etchings, lithographs, silkscreens prints are the result of wide-ranging research, carried out by the Bonnefanten in close collaboration with the Fondazione Aldo Rossi. Various institutions such as Istituto Centrale per la Grafica of Rome and Van Eyck of Maastricht have offered their scientific support. This international project received support from the Mondriaan Fund and Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Amsterdam. After Maastricht, the exhibition will travel on to Archizoom of Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and to GAMeC – Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo.