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Bruno Munari (Italy, 1907 – 1998)
Bruno Munari was born in Milan in 1907, he began artistic work at a very early age in the cultural area of Futurism: in 1927 he exhibited for the first time at the collective exhibition “33 Futurist Painters” at the Galleria Pesaro in Milan. He progressively moved away from the influence of Futurism and more generally from the historic avant-garde which he took as a pretext to develop an extremely personal and singular style. After the war he began work designing products, layouts and above all toys for children, for which he is best know by the general public.
All his work is characterized by a pedagogic finality which is explicit in his passionate interest in the development of childrens creativity through play but is also expressed in research intro the most diverse opportunities for wider and non-élitist communication: he writes for newspapers and weeklies, illustrates and produces many books. In 1962 he coordinated the first large exibition of kinetic art for Olivetti; in this area Munari created numerous works, conceived as single compositions or as the starting point for the production of “multiples” which could be produced in series.
Attracted by the simplicity of material Oriental culture, he travelled widely, particulary in Japan; the influence of Zen and more generally an almost philosophical attention towards the extreme synthetycity of the object is to be found in much of his work as a designer.
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