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Ivo Pannaggi
Ivo Pannaggi (Macerata, August 28, – Macerata, May 11, ) was an Italianpainter and architect who was active in the Futurist movement and later associated with the Bauhaus.
Biography
Pannaggi was born in Macerata in He studied architecture in Rome and Florence.[1] Pannaggi lived in Berlin between and [2] He moved to Norway in and returned to Italy in [1]
Art
Futurism
Pannaggi joined the Futurist movement in , but left soon after because of disagreements with Fillippo Marinetti.[1] In , 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 s.[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 (), 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
In , Pannaggi traveled to Berlin, where he would live until [2] He became friends with Kurt Schwitters and Walter Benjamin and published photomontage works in German newspapers.[2]
Between and , Pannaggi attended the Bauhaus, the only Futurist other than Nicolaj Diugheroff to do so.[3]
Exhibition History
His art was exhibited at the Civic Museum of Palazzo Mosca in Macerata (), Yale University Art Gallery (), Galleria Studio di Arte Moderna in Rome (), and at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris ().[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
- Ivo Pannaggi, Ivo Pannaggi (Oslo: Reclamo Trykkeri, ).
- Pannaggi, exhibition catalog (Rome: Studio d’Arte Moderna, ).
- Enrico Crispolti, Il mito della macchina e altri teni del futurismo (Trapani, Italy: Laterza, ),
- Enrico Crispolti, Pannaggi e l'arte meccanica futurista (Milan: Mazzotta, ).