BRUNO MUNARI - Biography
Bruno Munari was born in Milan in 1907. At the age of twenty he joined the second generation Milanese Futurist Movement and from here began his
multifaceted activity in the field of painting, design, didactic and kinetic experimentation, graphics, advertising, photography. In 1948 he founded the MAC, with Monnet, Dorfles and Soldati. His personal exhibitions are numerous and inventive: in 1949, at the Salto Library in Milan, he presents the "Useless Machines" and, in 1950, "Illegible Books"; in 1951, at the Helicopter Room in Milan, he exhibited the "Collection of found objects"; in 1952, at the Bergamini Gallery in Milan, his "Plastic Square Paintings" are on display. In 1950 Munari started the paintings "Positive Negative" which he exhibited, the same
year, in Paris. He also participates in numerous group exhibitions: like that, in 1952, at the Helicopter Room with "Plastic materials in concrete forms" with works in
celluloid, plexiglas, plastic laminates… In April 1954 he worked with Dorfles on the exhibition "Color for car bodies" held at the Turin Motor Show. Munari is, the same year, among the members of the Italian Groupe ESPACE. In the course of his experience, his production of design and his studies on the identification of art, play and creative learning, while respecting the intelligence of the child, take on international importance.
The artist died in Milan on 30 September 1998.
