PROGETTO PER NEGATIVO-POSITIVO

Bruno Munari is a figure of special importance in this exhibition, since, starting from his adherence to the Secondo Futurismo in the 1920s, he paired artistic exploration with a kind of technical design that was tied to the world of design and graphic design. The two works Un punto azzurro (1937), painted when Munari was influenced by Kandinsky's lyric abstraction, and Negativo-positivo giallo-rosso (1951), produced in the militancy years within the Movimento Arte Concreta, express this capacity to make free, unconventional abstract languages coexist with the rigorous structures of industrial design. A capacity that brings the artist in close relation to Ottavio Missoni. (AC)