Bruno Munari

Bruno Munari
Aldo Tanchis
Corraini
Italian
2024

While it’s true that everyone knows a different Munari, Aldo Tanchis’s book outlines the poetics implied in the entire work of this unique and multifaceted personality, merging his three essential roles: "Munari-artist," "Munari-designer," and "Munari-teacher." Tanchis, a researcher, writer, and scriptwriter, begins with the artist’s childhood in the country in the Veneto region, an enormous source of natural fascination that would always inspire his works, and interprets his artistic production as an activity serving and closely connected to life. The book arranges and discusses Bruno Munari’s work, from his first experiments up to the works that made him famous all over the world, his relations with the artistic trends of his times, his attentiveness to the world of children and to teaching, and the unique traits that made him always original: futurist among futurists, abstractionist among abstractionists, linked to the trends that changed contemporary graphics, promoter of concretism and good design, theorist of arte programmata. This is how Aldo Tanchis presents Munari’s “world”: a system remaining in dynamic balance among pairs of opposites and complementaries.