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Bruno Munari, Macchina Inutile

Bruno MunariMacchina Inutile, 1984

screenprint on cradboards, stained mahogany, enameled steel, string

192 x 72 x 1,3 cm

About the artist

Bruno Munari was born in Milan, Italy in 1907, died in 1998. He began his career at an early age during the second wave of Italian Futurists, exhibiting his work for the first time in 1927 at Galleria Pesaro, Milan. Simultaneously he pursued activities as an art-director, curator, and illustrator. In the years following, he progressively moved away from the influence of Futurism, developing an extremely personal and singular project over the course of 60 years. In 1930, he produced the Aerial Machine, from which came his Macchine Inutili (Useless Machines), anticipating his interest in the deconstruction of the traditional work of art.

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