Granelli Gallery, in Castiglioncello has the pleasure to introduce, a new interesting exposition dedicated to Bruno Munari with unique piece and multiple of Recent acquisitions :
Macchine Inutili | Tavole Tattili | Tensostrutture | Curva Di Peano | Negativo Positivo | Forchette Parlanti | Simultaneità degli Opposti | Ricostruzioni Teoriche | Strutture in movimento | Campioni di tessuto |
MAKING FROM SCRATCH
In an interview conducted in 1992 and aired in August 1993, Bruno Munari, with his gentle voice, explains the meaning of his name in Japanese, where MU means nothing and NARI' to do, therefore, MAKING FROM SCRATCH.Munari loved Japan, and was, and still is, much loved by the Japanese. And this making from scratch is not only an happy and marvelous nomen-omen, but it seems to represent the intimate essence of much of the work of the artist. What is it, if not a making from scratch, the simple gesture of folding a cardboard to make a travel sculpture? And again, we come back to Japan, with the practice of origami. And is it not perhaps a silly thing to take a sock and get a lamp out of it, or add two bows to a brushstroke to get the picture of a pretty girl? Not to mention the forks that simply folded in some parts becomes gesticulating hands. In his “Empire of the signs”, Roland Barthes, the great intellectual so attracted by the Japanese culture and aesthetics, writes: "...and It may be that what in Zen is called Satori and that the westerners can not translate that with vaguely Christian terms (illumination, revelation, intuition) is nothing more than a panic suspension of language, white that erases in us the kingdom of codes. "Even so, Munari is pushing himself to the abolition of linguistic codes in his unreadable books, wordless pages, as well as words are the white pages of “Cappuccetto bianco”, a delightful book that only he could think and realize. Never as in this case appoints sunt consequentia rerum, and no one like Munari deserves MAKING FROM SCRATCH. And art, after all, what's more?
Sergio Vanni

Opening reception and cocktail : May, 12 from 6.00 to 9pm

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