Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Milano – Design: Piero Fornasetti 100 Hundred Years of Practical Maddness exhibition

 
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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