Ivo Pannaggi (Macerata, August 28, 1901– Macerata, May 11, 1981) was an Italian painter and architect who was active in the Futurist movement and later associated with the Bauhaus.
Biography
editPannaggi was born in Macerata in 1901. He studied architecture in Rome and Florence.[1] Pannaggi lived in Berlin between 1927 and 1929.[2] He moved to Norway in 1939 and returned to Italy in 1971.[1]
Art
editFuturism
editPannaggi joined the Futurist movement in 1918, but left soon after because of disagreements with Fillippo Marinetti.[1] In 1922, he and Vinicio Paladini published their “Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art."[1][3] The manifesto emphasized the importance of machine aesthetics (arte meccanica), which became one of the dominant strands of Futurism in the 1920s.[3][4] He and Paladini also staged the Mechanical Futurist Ballet (Ballo meccano futurista) at Anton Giulio Bragaglia's Casa d'Arte.[5]
Around the same time he painted Speeding Train (Treno in corsa), perhaps his most famous work.[3]
He also created many photomontage works. In Postal Collages (1925), Pannaggi created a series of unfinished photomontages that would be completed through the inevitable addition of stamps and seals by postal workers—an early instance of mail art.[2]
Germany and the Bauhaus
editIn 1927, Pannaggi traveled to Berlin, where he would live until 1929.[2] He became friends with Kurt Schwitters and Walter Benjamin and published photomontage works in German newspapers.[2]
Between 1932 and 1933, Pannaggi attended the Bauhaus, the only Futurist other than Nicolaj Diugheroff to do so.[3]
Exhibition History
editHis art was exhibited at the Civic Museum of Palazzo Mosca in Macerata (1922), Yale University Art Gallery (1941), Galleria Studio di Arte Moderna in Rome (1969), and at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris (1981).[1] His work is held at many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Stedelijk Museum.[6][7][8]
Further reading
edit- Ivo Pannaggi, Ivo Pannaggi (Oslo: Reclamo Trykkeri, 1962).
- Pannaggi, exhibition catalog (Rome: Studio d’Arte Moderna, 1969).
- Enrico Crispolti, Il mito della macchina e altri teni del futurismo (Trapani, Italy: Laterza, 1969), 393.
- Enrico Crispolti, Pannaggi e l'arte meccanica futurista (Milan: Mazzotta, 1995).
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Pannaggi, Ivo". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00135443. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ^ a b c d Lista, Giovanni, ed. (2001). Futurism and Photography. London: Merrell. pp. 55–57.
- ^ a b c d "Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe: Art Meccanica". Guggenheim. 2014. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ^ Pizzi, Katia (2009-12-01). "Dancing and Flying the Body Mechanical: Five Visions for the New Civilisation". The European Legacy. 14 (7): 785–798. doi:10.1080/10848770903363888. ISSN 1084-8770.
- ^ Berghaus, Günter, ed. (2012). International futurism in arts and literature. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 462–471. ISBN 978-3-11-080422-5. OCLC 855524873.
- ^ "Ivo Pannaggi". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ^ "Architectonic Function 3U". Yale University Art Gallery. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ^ "Scatole d'amore in conserva (1927), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti". Stedelijk Museum. Retrieved 2020-12-31.