(7 January, 2016) The exhibition “Bruno Munari, a pioneer of modernity, 1928-1945” lands in Montreal from March 10 to April 17, hosted partly at the Center of Design of the University of Quebec and in part in the Artexte Gallery. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, features Bruno Munari’s production (1907-1998), a pioneer of Italian graphics. In its twofold component, the display explores the emergence and nature of modernism in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. As an artist and designer active in Milan in the late 1920s, Munari embodied in an exemplary way the meeting between the local tradition of modernity represented by the Futurists and the currents associated with European constructivism and new typefaces. His graphic work, which developed in the period between the two wars, helps understand how modernist ideas were assimilated in the Milan artistic and intellectual circles, and allows to track changes that have influenced the concept of the profession, transformed from a highly artistic practice to a functional and minimalist approach. By paying attention to both graphical artifacts and cultural framework, the exhibition offers a sneak peak into the original and eclectic “culture of design” born in Milan. (Red)
