MACA broke Bruno Munari’s curse

To break the “curse with Munari in this country”, Juan Mart Foundation organized Munari’s first retrospective in Spain. He showed it in Madrid and now, in collaboration with the Alicante museum itself and the Generalitat Valenciana Consortium of Museums, has arrived at MACA, where it was presented this morning and will be on display until 25 September.

“He would have been grateful if his first retrospective had been in a city near the sea like Alicante,” he assured. Manuel Fontan This exhibition, which includes 137 works, will be curated by Marco Meneguzzo and Aida Çapa. 30’s to 90’s to collect all the records he has worked with, from editorial graphic design and product design to painting and sculpture, through books as projects, research and games as objects.

With this exhibition that the Mart Foundation is planning to exhibit, “a perfect Munari”As Fontán points out, the representation of his plural activity is viewed entirely as “the author’s breadth of tools in his plastic and visual research, always experimental and innovative.” In fact, “when you see the exhibit you get the impression that it is. a collective of diverse artists“Because he is “actor or director in a circus, he is an absolute pioneer in a circus”.

Munari, described by Picasso as follows, “Leonardo of Our Time”In the 1930s he reversed the abstraction with air machines and a series of useless machines. research with technology and then like new processes copier or computer programming. He continued by experimenting with light and poetic masterful works such as the 2000 Fossils. travel statues or talking forks.

“Munari was fascinated by the internet but also realized that there was an area to add to the harmony, humor and truth,” the curator said.

Pedagogical profession of the artist, who Aural held an exhibition at its centers in Alicante and Madrid He accompanied his entire career between 2019-2020. As early as the 1970s, he set up “what now seems normal to us”, such as labs for children, workshops with active suggestions for learning by doing, experimenting, and playing. Brera Art Gallery in Milan.

In fact, this exhibition includes a specially designed laboratory for the event, with its own space inside the rooms for children and young people to coexist with pieces of the artwork. Great Lucini Alphabet.

collaborative work

The works in the exhibition, which will later be seen at the Juan March Foundation in Palma and the Spanish Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca, come from galleries, foundations, private collections and Italian institutions. These include the Fondazione Jacqueline Vodoz e Bruno Danese in Milan, the Repetto Gallery in London, the Lafuente Archive, Gaerlía Cadaqués and the Ugo Mulas Archive. “We’ve seen things happen when various institutions come to an agreement, and we only found support when working with MACA and the Consorci de Museus”.

mayor of Alicanteluis barcala“the polyhedral work of this pioneering Milanese creator who was ahead of his time.” MACA’s internationalist profession and its commitment to the avant-garde.” Something that responds to “a very clear educational route to serve the education of the people of Alicante and to become more demanding.”

Cultural Consultant, Anthony Manresa I wanted to thank Fundación Juan March for considering “Alicante and MACA as one of their travel destinations, because for our city this exhibition represents an important cultural incentive and allows us to continue to place the museum on the national map of reference centers for contemporary art”.

For the director of the Consorci de Museus, José Luis PerezPontThis exhibition, which also participated in the presentation, “will allow us to meet” an important creator which is perfectly connected with the MACA discourse and all that it represents. sempere collection“.

He also stressed that this exhibition “will normally be here, not in Valencia when it’s the other way around”. In this sense, he wanted to emphasize that “we have been working on the structuring of the region for six years” with “major collaborations with MACA, Mubag and Cigarreras in Alciante” and that in 2022 the Consortium in Alicante has a budget. 270.000 Euro, “for exhibition production, housing and mediation projects”.