This year we present a new immaterial section of the Drawing Room Lisboa art fair: Listen to the Drawing. This new section is related to the intersections of artistic disciplines, uniting sound curation with visual arts. This initiative aims to identify a musical artist who can offer a proposed “soundtrack” for the works on display, which is available to visitors and which allows new readings and ways of appreciating the works on display at the fair.
We chose Rodrigo Leão (the musician draws regularly and has already used several drawings of his own to illustrate new albums) for this new proposal. In addition to this question of “what does drawing sound like” and offering other layers to visitors, it also allows us to have a brief live presentation at the Opening of Drawing Room Lisboa.
Rodrigo Leão and his children, António, Rosa and Sofia (young musicians) will share with us an instrumental dialogue on 2 acoustic pianos, where sounds, conversations and generations mix, just as Drawing Room Lisboa has tried to do with its audiences.
A musician of undeniable recognition and merit, Rodrigo Leão, has a long career, but is always available to try new formats and make room for new young talents.
This initiative is the result of a solid and consistent partnership with the Millennium bcp Foundation, which since the first edition, has developed, with the Drawing Room Lisboa team, new ways of expanding this moment dedicated to contemporary drawing, in numerous initiatives that are example, the Millennium Art Talks, the Fundação Millennium bcp Awards at Drawing Room Lisboa and now as a patron of this experience of listening to drawing.