Irina Zucca Alessandrelli

Irina Zucca Alessandrelli

Irina Zucca Alessandrelli is an art historian and journalist based in Milan, Italy. She has been the Curator of Collezione Ramo since 2013. The collection focuses on the importance of Italian art of the last century while also promoting a culture of drawing as having an independent value, on a par with painting and sculpture. Zucca Alessandrelli holds a BA in Modern and Contemporary Italian Art at Università degli Studi di Milano (Honours), and an MA in Curatorial Studies, Columbia University, New York, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar. She is the author of Italian Drawing of the XX century (Milan 2019, Silvana ed). She co-curated “Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century”, Menil Drawing Institute (Nov 2020-Apr 2021), The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.  She curated “Who’s afraid of Drawing? Works on paper from Collezione Ramo, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London (Apr 2019-June 2019). She presented the Collezione Ramo for the first time at Museo del Novecento in Milan in 2018 with the exhibition “Chi ha paura del Disegno?” (Nov 2018 -Jan 2019). She wrote for ILSOLE24ore, Arteconomy page (2007-2013)