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BRUNO MUNARI

BRUNO MUNARI

Eclectic artist, writer, painter, sculptor, graphic designer and industrialist, Bruno Munari was born in Milan in 1907 and he spent his childhood in the Polesine (southern Veneto). In 1926 he moved back to Milan, where he participated in the artistic movement of Futurism and together with the group of artists Severini, Marinetti, Prampolini and Aligi Sassu, he helped to found the Lombardo Radiofuturista Group deepening the techniques of aeropainting. In 1933 he started his research on Macchine Inutili and created the Macchina Aerea and in 1942, he published "Munari’s Machines" with the publishing house Einaudi and became for them, and for many other publishing houses, a creative graphic, collaborating for many years. In 1948 he was one of the founders of the M.A.C. (Movimento Arte Concreta) together with Atanasio Soldati, Gillo Dorfles and Gianni Monnet, and gradually explored the field of kinetic art, the coexistence of organic and mechanical movements, demonstrating also the possibility of a convergence between art and technique. He began visual experimentation in 1953, working on direct projections with polarized light, until he made experimental films and avant-garde film and from these works, he then created the Cineteca di Monteolimpino - International Center of Research Film. Always focused on the exploration of form, in 1958 modeling the tines of forks he creates a language of signs by means of forks, and in the same year, by innovative reinterpretation of the concept of sculpture, presented the folding travel sculptures in cardboard. In 1962 he organized in Milan the first exhibition of Arte Programmata and in the following years he devoted himself to kinetic research and experiments of Xerography. For his activity he has received many awards, including the Compasso d'oro of the Industrial Design Association (1954, 1955, 1979 and in 1995 for his career); the Gold Medal of Triennale of Milan for Illeggibili Books (1957); the honourable mention of the New York Academy of Sciences (1974); the Japan Design Foundation Award (1985); the Lego Prize for its contribution to the development of creativity in children (1986). In September 1998 he died in his home in Milan.

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