Magdalo Mussio

Magdalo Mussio (Volterra, 23 July 1925 – Civitanova Marche, 12 August 2006) was an Italian writer, artist, film animator and magazine editor.

Magdalo Mussio

Biography

Mussio was born in Volterra, Tuscany. After graduating at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, in the late 1960s he served as editor of several Italian cultural publications, including the magazine Marcatrè. He also worked as creative director and animator for a number of films, including Reale dissoluto, I ragazzi di Theresi, Il potere del drago and Umanomeno.

Mussio has authored several books uniting his own creative writings with what has been described as 'an archaeology of images in a sweetly melancholic mixture'. Among his best-known titles are In practica, Praticabili per memoria concreta and Il fastidio delle parole.

As a visual artist, Mussio was associated with Gruppo 63. He had his first solo show at Galleria L'Indiano in Florence in 1963. Giuseppe Ungaretti wrote the catalogue essay.

Mussio died at 81 after a long illness.

Further reading

• Paola Ballesi, ed. (2016). Marginalia: Il pensiero figurato di Magdalo Mussio. Quodlibet. p. 22. ISBN 978-88-229-0013-5.
• Giovanna Cassese, ed. (2013). Accademie patrimoni di belle arti. Gangemi Editore, Rome. ISBN 978-88-492-2671-3.
• Bruno Di Marino; Marco Meneguzzo; Andrea La Porta, eds. (2012). Lo sguardo espanso: Cinema d'artista italiano 1912-2012. Silvana Editoriale, Milan. ISBN 978-88-85345-10-2.
• Albert Mayr, ed. (2011). Pietro Grossi: avventure con suono e segno. ISBN 978-88-902631-2-5.
• Armando Ginesi, ed. (2006). Le Marche e il XX Secolo: Atlante degli artisti. Federico Motta Editore/Banca delle Marche.
• Carlo Pirovano, ed. (1993). La pittura in Italia: Il Novecento/2. Electa, Milan. ISBN 88-435-3982-5.
• Giorgio Di Genova (1991). Storia dell'arte italiana del '900. Vol. Generazione anni Venti. Bora, Italy. ISBN 88-85345-10-7.