Bruno Munari Study Day – Center for Italian Modern Art
December 9, 2022
10:00 AM – 06:30 PM
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Keynote speaker: Prof. Pierpaolo Antonello, Cambridge University
The exhibition Bruno Munari: The Youngster Inside of, curated by Steven Guarnaccia and on check out in New York at the Middle for Italian Contemporary Artwork (CIMA) from Oct 6, 2022 to January 14, 2023, focuses on Munari’s illustrated children’s guides. These books expressed, in an accessible kind, Munari’s wide-ranging strategies about the opportunities that art presented to communicate visually. With each other with artworks, structure objects, photographs and toys, the exhibition provides innumerable perspectives by way of which to examine Munari’s solution to artwork, design and style, and pedagogy.
With this Bruno Munari Review Day, CIMA’s Study Fellows be a part of notable scholars from diverse fields—including Historical past of Artwork and Architecture, Italian Scientific tests, History of Design and style, Schooling, Children’s Literature—to examine the themes at the center of the exhibition within and exterior of established essential frameworks.
The meeting will acquire position in particular person at the Middle for Italian Modern-day Art. Moreover the keynote handle and two scholarly panels, a team of designers and layout historians will also acquire for a specific roundtable session devoted to a immediate examination of some of the books and objects in the exhibition, a “return to main sources” that will offer a firsthand option to inspect the innovations at engage in in Munari’s function.
Convention System
10AM: Conference registration and viewing of the exhibition Bruno Munari: The Baby Within, curated by Steven Guarnaccia.
11AM: Panel 1 – Bruno Munari and the Visible Arts
Maria Antonella Pelizzari (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Heart), “CONFABULATIONS: Munari’s Photographic Alphabet”
David Reinfurt (Princeton College), “… meet up with the Tetracono”
Luca Zaffarano (curator and independent scholar), “Travelling with Bruno Munari”
Giulia Zompa (CIMA Analysis Fellow), “The American Munari concerning Art, Publishing, and Design”
Adopted by discussion
12:30-1:30PM: Lunch Crack
1:30PM: Panel 2 – In Munari’s Words and phrases: Instruction, Design and Publishing
Margaret Scarborough (CIMA Resarch Fellow), “The Cages of Bruno Munari: Fantasies of Independence and Constraint”
Nicola Lucchi (Heart for Italian Modern Art), “Bruno Munari, or the Artwork of the Side Gig”
Paloma Diaz-Dickson (illustrator, Maryland Institute University of Art), “Redefining Children’s Guides A person Site at a Time: The Operate of Bruno Munari and Květa Pacovská”
Followed by discussion
3PM: Panel 3: Roundtable dialogue on Munari’s find guides and video games
Moderator: Kimberlie Birks (unbiased scholar, style writer)
Discussants: Nicola Cipani (New York University), Paloma Diaz-Dickson (illustrator, Maryland Institute School of Artwork), Isabel Roxas (storyteller and graphic artist)
5:30PM Keynote handle
Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge University), “Open Works: Bruno Munari’s Interactive Style in an Analog World”
Community programming at CIMA is created feasible with the generous guidance of Tiro a Segno Basis
