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A Kind of Language
January 30 through September 8, 2025

"A kind of language" is how David Byrne defined storyboards while designing Stop Making Sense, a Talking Heads' concert movie, in the early 1980s. The story of storyboards, however, began much before – perhaps in the 1950s, when Walt Disney found that sequences sketched out on sheets of paper by animator Webb Smith were so many and so scattered in the room that the only way to follow them would be to pin them on a wall.
.:. The exhibition showcases more than eight hundred items created from the late 1920s to 2024 – including mood boards, drawings, scrapbooks, notebooks, annotated scripts, and photos – under the subtitle of "Storyboards and Other Renderings for Cinema". A 1941 study to animate the character of Lois Lane (pictured), the girl friend of Superman and his alter ego, Clark Kent, may exemplify how the items exhibited go back long before actual storyboards were invented.
.:. The design process of a movie can be extremely varied. This is evidenced here by artworks and notes by top-notch directors like Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luis Buñuel, Charlie Chaplin, Sofia Coppola, Cecil B. DeMille, Joan Jonas, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Akira Kurosawa, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Andrew Stanton, Agnès Varda, and Wim Wenders.

 Osservatorio
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II 
Duomo
Duomo district

  Mon and Wed-Fri 2-8 pm, Sat and Sun 11am-8 pm
   Euro 15 / Euro 12 with a visit to the Fondazione Prada within 14 days included
    [+39] 02 56662611