BRUNO MUNARI - XEROGRAFIA

Vernissage Wednesday April 22 6pm
Exhibition form April 23 to June 13

Featuring works from the Bruno Munari Studio / Estate
Curated by Nikki Lavollay & Gabriella Zalapi

For the first time, a unique and carefully curated selection of Munari’s Xerografia will be presented to the public — and available for acquisition.

This rare showcase offers an intimate look into Munari’s groundbreaking experimentation with the Xerox machine, where technology becomes a tool for poetic and visual exploration.

Alongside the works, visitors will discover original documents, photographs, and personal correspondence from the Studio, providing deeper insight into Munari’s creative process and artistic vision.

On this special occasion, the original Xerografia book will also be republished.

We look forward to welcoming you to celebrate the innovative spirit and timeless creativity of Bruno Munari.

"If we want to arrive at an art that belong to all (and not an art made for all, as a famous French critic recently wrote), it is necessary to find tools that facilitate the artistic operation and, at the same time, give everyone the methods and preparation to be able to operate.

Great Art, of bourgeois conception, hand-made by the Genius only for the richest, no longer makes sense in our age; Art for All is still this type of art at a lower price, it still carries the spirit of genius, leaving everyone else in their inferiority complex.

The technological possibilities of our age can allow anyone to work and produce something of aesthetic value, can allow anyone who has eliminated their inferiority complex in the face of art, to put their creativity, so long humiliated, into action.

One of the tasks of the visual operator will be to experiment, to seek out tools and pass them on to the next person, with all the ‘secrets of the trade’ that can facilitate the task of doing.

The Rank Xerox machines have the ability to help anyone manifest. Invented to reproduce images, today they can produce them. Of course, like all other means, they too have their limits, but if one thinks of the instrumental limits of the piano, for example, with which one cannot make a long note... yet it cannot be denied that the piano is an instrument capable of producing works of sonorous art. Therefore, as with other media, it is a matter of operating within certain limits and, of course, not expecting to make masterpieces immediately."

Bruno Munari 1969

Bruno Munari (24 October 1907 – 29 September 1998) was "one of the greatest actors of 20th-century art, design and graphics". He was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in modernism, futurism, and concrete art, and in non-visual arts (literature, poetry) with his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning, and creativity. On the utility of art, Munari once said, "Art shall not be separated from life: things that are good to look at, and bad to be used, should not exist".