Bruno Munari

Interview with Bruno Munari

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• published: 15 Jun 2012
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http://next.naba.it/ This video belongs to the collection of interviews conducted by Alessandro Guerriero for NABANEXT: a platform that promotes the greatest Italian designers, linking their different approaches to the world of Design, Fashion and Art, in order to constitute a unique path and yet to be explored. Bruno Munari He was born in Milan in 1907. When he was just twenty, he joined the second-generation Milanese Futurist Movement and began his eclectic activities in the fields of painting, design, educational and kinetic experimentation, graphic design, advertising and photography. In 1948 he founded the MAC (Concrete Art Movement) together with Monnet, Dorfles and Soldati. His numerous personal exhibitions underlined his enormous creativity. In 1949, at the "Libreria Salto" in Milan, he presented "Useless Machines" and in 1950 "Illegible Books"; in 1951, at the "Saletta dell'Elicottero" in Milan, he displayed his "Collezione di oggetti trovati"; and in 1952, at the "Galleria Bergamini" in Milan, he exhibited his "Quadri quadrati plastici". In 1950 Munari began his "Positive Negative" paintings, which he displayed the same year in Paris. He took part in numerous collective exhibitions, including one in 1952 at the "Saletta dell'Elicottero" where he presented "Materie plastiche in forme concrete" with works in celluloid, plexiglass and plastic laminates. In April 1954 Munari worked together with Dorfles on the exhibition "Colore per le carrozzerie di aut"o, held at the "Salone dell'Automobile" in Turin. The same year, he was one of the members of the Italian Group ESPACE. He won international acclaim for his work in the field of design and his studies of art, play and creative learning that aimed to respect the intelligence of children. He died in Milan on 30 September 1998.