The Fondazione Somaini, which on the occasion of the centenary of the artist's birth has launched various initiatives aimed at exploring the works on paper of Francesco Somaini (1926-2005), presents at its headquarters from 19 November 2026 to 29 May 2027 an exhibition, curated by Luisa Somaini and Chiara Rampoldi, that highlights the relationship between graphic design, the execution of the sculptural work and the use of photography as a moment of research, titled precisely Somaini. Metamorfosi: disegni, sculture, fotomontaggi.
Somaini was in fact a great, prolific draughtsman who, in the obsessive pursuit of an ever greater formal quality responding gradually to his own creative needs, experimented with different techniques, going on to develop a personal procedure suggested by his attitude of working "per via di levare" (by subtraction), as in the "inchiostri dilavati" (washed-out inks), which involves immersing the sheet in water.