Milano –
Design: Piero Fornasetti 100 Hundred
Years of Practical Maddness exhibition. On the occasion of the centenary of
Piero Fornasetti’s birth, the Triennale Design Museum presents a first grand
and unprecedented exhibition of the artist’s work, entitled Piero Fornasetti
100 Hundred Years of Practical Maddness, until February 2, which is curated by
Piero’s son Barnaba, who brilliantly still carries on his father’s work.
Above.
Father and son.
Piero
Fornasetti 100 Hundred Years of Practical Maddness exhibition. Painter,
engraver and printer, designer, collector, stylist, refined craftsman, art
gallery manager and exhibition promoter, Fornasetti had an extremely rich and
complex personality. He designed and made approximately 13.000 objects and
decorations. His world was animated by the rigor of projects, of art and of craftsmanship,
but also by his unbridled fantasy, surrealist invention and poetry.
Above.
One of the Indian ink self-portraits on paper from the series Autoritratti.
Piero
Fornasetti 100 Hundred Years of Practical Maddness exhibition. Piero Fornasetti
photographed by Ugo Mulas in the 1960s.
Piero
Fornasetti 100 Hundred Years of Practical Maddness exhibition. A promotional
lamp for Oggi magazine sits on a cube table. The exhibition includes more
than 1000 pieces, mostly from the extraordinary Fornasetti archive in Milan.
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