Marcello Nizzoli, Edoardo Persico, Medaglie d´oro TR, Milan, Italy, 1934

The exhibition of Italian aeronautics, set up in the press, 5 plates) and explanatory texts, related to the original of the exhibition and some sketches 1934 in Milan in the Palazzo dell’Arte, takes place in the hands of aviators, are followed by tape on pencil preparers. 28 rooms plus a pavilion dedicated to the aerial photography and the aerocartography. The room of Nizzoli and Persico is dedicated to twenty-six Italian aviators who have deserved with the interweaving of diaphragm panels a mesh (the black of floor and ceiling and the white of the gold medal during the First World War; photographic documentation reading path The material related to the (31 photographic prints on bromide paper, 2 projects is composed of numerous photographs a three-dimensional grid, hooked to flagpoles that go from the floor to the ceiling of the room. the exhibition with a plan in which highlights how the exhibition grid is released from the walls of the room, whose colors of light dark, full and empty that indicate the walls) highlight the structure.

MARCELLO NIZZOLI

Marcello Nizzoli was an Italian artist, architect, industrial and graphic designer. He was the chief designer for Olivetti for many years and was responsible notably for the iconic Lettera 22 portable type writers in 1950. During the 15 years after World War I Nizzoli demonstrated his remarkable talent for handling the most diverse forms of the avant-garde movements, from Futurism to Cubism, from the Viennese Secession style to Novecento Italiano, adapting them to the taste of his cultivated middle-class clientele. Nizzoli’s two best-known design projects are the Olivetti typewriter Lexicon 80 (1948) and the Necchi Mirella sewing machine (1957). He continued his architectural work, along the lines laid down by Persico in the early 1930s, working towards the integration of the arts with architecture, as in the E.N.I. office block (1956–8; with G. M. Oliveri) at San Donato Milanese, Milan.

EDOARDO PERSICO

Edoardo Persico was an Italian art critic, teacher and essayist. Born in Naples, where he attended the “Vittorio Emanuele” high school. A friend of Piero Gobetti, with whom he collaborates with the magazines La Rivoluzione Liberale and Il Baretti, he moved to Turin in 1927 where he lived among painful narrowness working as a man of hard work at FIAT. After many sacrifices, he founded his own publishing house. Here he met Lionello Venturi and supported a group of artists who will be known as the “Sei di Torino”. In 1929 Persico moved to Milan, where he collaborated with the magazine Belvedere and around 1930 he founded the Galleria del Milione and in 1931 he directed the Casabella magazine with Giuseppe Pagano. He was called to teach at ISIA in Monza, a school of applied art. From 1934 he turned his interest in architecture, joined the Rationalist Movement, he created interior furnishings and exhibitions for exhibitions.

References:

– https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Nizzoli

– https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edoardo_Persico

– book: Gianni Ottolini_Archoteturra degli allestineuti

Authors:

Karolína Hanusová

Petra Malovaná

Richard Krajňák