Archivio Casorati FELICE CASORATI DESIGNER

Dario — Tue, 13 May 2025 08:24:59 +0000

The volume illustrates an unpublished aspect of the great Master of the twentieth century, “Felice Casorati Designer. Pioneer in the birth of Italian design”, in which furniture and prototypes designed by the artist are reproduced, some of which are visible to the public for the first time. The volume highlights Casorati’s influence in the field of applied arts and furniture, recognizing his role as a pioneer in the birth of Italian design.
The works presented in the volume, edited by the Casorati Archive and with a historical essay by Davide Alaimo, tell the story of the 1920s, a period during which Casorati developed a fruitful partnership with the patron Riccardo Gualino, whose commissions allowed him to experiment and put himself to the test as an “interior decorator”, architect, today we would say “designer”. Riccardo Gualino wrote in his autobiography, published in 1931: “It was an act of courage to grant carte blanche to a painter to create architecture.” In 1925, Riccardo and Cesarina Gualino entrusted Casorati with the design of the small theater in via Galliari in Turin, the furnishings of the dance school and part of his private home. It was in this period that the painter began to design chairs, stools, tables, bookcases, combining his artistic poetics with that of design, and calling the young architect Alberto Sartoris to collaborate with him in the design of the private theater. Also presented in the collection, in a completely new form, are the first projects for furniture with the dry oil on paper technique, a particular technique of Casorati, which allows an innovative reading of three-dimensional forms.

Daniel Fuss MEMFUSS. Archivio nomade

Dario — Tue, 20 May 2014 10:47:57 +0000

The artistic work of Manuel M. Fuss is inevitably intertwined with his life experience that has led him to cross tragic and sometimes exciting historical events, and to cross the most disparate geographical and cultural borders. Manuel M. Fuss travels with only one passport in his pocket, that of the United States of America, but his true identities are two: that of a Jew and that of a man who has linked his most to the four continents of the Earth, without giving too much importance to the pieces of paper that arbitrarily bind people to this or that country. (…) The New York reality, permeated with cultural and ethnic cosmopolitanism, reconciles him with the world, stimulating in him the first artistic impulses, the love for drawing and painting. On the Asian continent he contributes to the redemption of his battered people, enlisting as a volunteer in the ranks of the newborn Israeli. In Africa he begins his career as an architect, meets his future wife, starts a family. The return to the continent of origin allowed him to consolidate his artistic vocation. Under the guidance of Fernand Leger he took his first steps in the Parisian art world, held his first exhibition, matured the transition from realist to abstract painting, inspired by Cubism. In the Milan of the sixties, which had risen to the capital of modern art, definitively the techniques and stylistic traits characteristic of his works. The cubist influence fades and it is replaced by the letterist one, combined with the collage technique. Immersed in the magical atmosphere of those Milanese years, he frequented the artists’ meeting place, the Jamaica bar, bonding in friendship with Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Antonio Maschera and several other frequenters of the Brera district. (from the introduction by Alfredo Fuss)

Architecture – Prinp Editoria d'Arte

Archivio Casorati FELICE CASORATI DESIGNER

Daniel Fuss MEMFUSS. Archivio nomade