Bruno Munari's colors of light on display at the Plart Foundation in Naples

On the occasion of the 2018 edition of Progetto XXI, the Plart Foundation and the Donnaregina Foundation for Contemporary Arts in Naples are proposing the exhibition"Bruno Munari. TheColors of Light" open to the public from November 30, 2018 to March 20, 2019.

Among the greatest exponents ofprogrammed and kinetic art, Bruno Munari (Milan, 1907 - 1998) interpreted the aesthetic challenges of the Italian twentieth century by analyzing the relationship between the concept of work and that of product.

One of the main aspects of his art is to conquer a new spatiality beyond the two-dimensional reality of the work, and this is clearly seen in a selection of his works, such as the Fixed Light Projections and Polarized Light Projections executed in the 1950s. Painting with light, he arrived in 1950 at the process of dematerializing art through slide projections entitled Direct Projections: compositions with organic materials, transparent and colored plastic films, paint, screens, cotton threads stopped between two slides, projected indoors or outdoors on building facades.
His is a projected painting: in 1953 he discovered for the first time how to break down the spectrum of light through a Polaroid lens; thus he obtained the Polarized Projections, an example of dynamic painting in continuous becoming.

Munari’s complex artistic production will be presented for the first time in Naples, thanks to the painstaking scientific work of digitizing the slides carried out by the Plart Foundation. The public will discover an aspect of Munari’s art that remained unknown for a long time, which concerns the relationship between art and technology.

Among the works in the exhibition are Macchina Inutile (1934), Tavola Tattile (1938), Macchina Aritmica (1947), Punto di luce (1942), Concavo-Convesso (1947), Flexy, multiples made in plastic from the 1960s onward, and Fossile del 2000 (1959).

The exhibition is curated by Miroslava Hajek and Marcello Francolini and is promoted by Fondazione Plart in collaboration with Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee.

For info: www.fondazioneplart.it

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Image: Bruno Munari, Glass windows with polarized light (1953)

Bruno Munari's colors of light on display at the Plart Foundation in Naples

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