Bruno Munari's Acona Biconbi
| January 07, 2008

Artist and designer Bruno Munari may be best known for the beautiful children's books he published with Edizioni Corraini [He began making children's books for his son Alberto.]

But Munari also created furniture and lighting designs and art. This stainless steel edition of a sculpture/game Acona Biconbi, was part of Munari's exploration of repetition and multiples. Galleria Corraini issued it in an edition of 50 in the early 1960's. It looks like an installation by Olafur Eliasson, which is to say it's spectacular.



In 1927 Munari started to follow Marinetti and the futurist movement, showing his work in many exhibitions. Three years later he associate with Riccardo Castegnetti (Ricas), with whom work as a graphic until 1938. During a travel to Paris, in 1933, found Louis Aragon and André Breton. From 1939 to 1945 work as a press graphic designer for the Mondadori editor, and as art director of Tempo Magazine. At the same time he start to write books for kids, originally created for his son Alberto.: In 1948, Munari, Gillo Dorfles, Gianni Monnet and Atanasio Soldati, founded the Arte Concreta movement.

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