Single piece Signed Dated Titled Framed
Size
Year
1970
Medium
Paintings , Design , Drawings
Reference
bf820a6f
ESPOSIZIONI:
- Bruno Munari + Giorgio Villa. Un maestro un amico – Opere degli anni '50, Valmore studio d'arte, Vicenza, 2006;
- MiART 2007, Valmore studio d'arte, Milano, 2007;
- Bruno Munari & Giorgio Villa, Palazzo del Commercio, Lugo, 29 marzo – 11 maggio 2008;
- Bruno Munari – L'essenza della genialità, Galleria 1, Roma, 2009;
- MiART 2009, Valmore studio d'arte, Milano, 2009;
- Art Verona 09, Valmore studio d'arte, Verona, 2009;
- MiART 2010, Valmore studio d'arte, Milano, 2010;
- Arte Cinetica e Programmata, Galleria Edieuropa, 21 novembre 2010 - 12 febbraio 2011;
- Percezione e Illusione: Arte Programmata e cinetica italiana, MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
(Argentina), 10 ottobre – 08 dicembre 2013;
- Percezione e Illusione: Arte Programmata e cinetica italiana, MACLA – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Latinoamericano de La Plata, La Plata
(Argentina), 18 dicembre 2013 – 03 marzo 2014.
PUBBLICAZIONI:
- Bruno Munari + Giorgio Villa. Un maestro un amico – Opere degli anni '50 (catalogo della mostra presso Valmore studio d'arte, Vicenza, 2006),
Edizioni Valmore studio d'arte, Vicenza, 2006, p.6;
- Bruno Munari & Giorgio Villa (catalogo della mostra presso Palazzo del Commercio, Lugo, 2008)Cesena, 2008, s.p.;
- Bruno Munari – L'essenza della genialità (catalogo della mostra presso Galleria 1, Roma, 2009), Edizione a cura della Galleria 1, Roma, 2009,
p.33;
- Arte Cinetica e Programmata (catalogo della mostra), ed. Galleria Edieuropa, 2010, s.p.;
- Percezione e Illusione: Arte Programmata e cinetica italiana (catalogo della mostra presso MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires e MACLA – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Latinoamericano de La Plata, La Plata in Argentina).
1907 Milan, Italy
Bruno Munari (October 24, 1907, Milan – September 30, 1998, Milan) was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in modernism, futurism, and concrete art, and in non visual arts (literature, poetry) with his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning, and creativity.
Bruno Munari was born in Milan but spent his childhood and teenage years in Badia Polesine. In 1925 he returned to Milan where he started to work with his uncle who was an engineer. In 1927, he started to follow Marinetti and the Futurist movement, displaying his work in many exhibitions. Three years later he associated with Riccardo Castagnedi (Ricas), with whom he worked as a graphic designer until 1938. During a trip to Paris, in 1933, he met Louis Aragon and André Breton. From 1938 to September 1943 he worked as a press graphic designer for Mondadori, and as art director of Tempo Magazine and Grazia, two magazines owned by Mondadori. At the same time he began designing books for children, originally created for his son Alberto.
Futurism
Bruno Munari joined the 'Second' Italian Futurist movement in Italy led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the late 1920s. During this period, Munari contributed collages to Italian magazines, some of them highly propagandist, and created sculptural works which would unfold in the coming decades including his useless machines, and his abstract-geometrical works. After World War II Munari disassociated himself with Italian Futurism because of its proto-Fascist connotations.
Later life
In 1948, Munari, Gillo Dorfles, Gianni Monnet and Atanasio Soldati, founded Movimento Arte Concreta (MAC), the Italian movement for concrete art. During the 1940s and 1950s, Munari produced many objects for the Italian design industry, including light fixtures, ash trays, televisions, espresso machines, and toys among other objects. A white marble gravestone on the wall of a chapel, with only the name and dates of birth and death inscribed Munari's grave at the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan, Italy, in 2015
In his later life, Munari, worried by the incorrect perception of his artistic work, which is still confused with the other genres of his activity (didactics, design, graphics), selected art historian Miroslava Hajek as curator of a selection of his most important works in 1969. This collection, structured chronologically, shows his continuous creativity, thematic coherence and the evolution of his aesthetic philosophy throughout his artistic life.
Munari was also a significant contributor in the field of children's books and toys, later in his life, though he had been producing books for children since the 1930s. He used textured, tactile surfaces and cut-outs to create books that teach about touch, movement, and colour through kinesthetic learning.
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