In yesterday's post we looked at how we can get inspired by the summer and holiday moods found in iconic photographs. Yet the summer season makes us think about blue skies and crystalline seas and at the themes of lightness or simplicity, colours and ideas that can be easily found in art as well as we are going to see in this post.
Paolo Scheggi's "Zone riflesse" (Reflected Areas, 1964), for example, is a monochromatic turquoise abstract landscape on three overlapped canvases characterised by sinuous elliptical elements. Scheggi's monochromatic surfaces offer the possibility of exploring a dynamic sense of space that is almost infinite and that goes beyond the canvas and that can be connected with our desire to travel and discover new places.
Lightness and simplicity could instead be symbolised by Bruno Munari's "Scultura da viaggio 523" (1987; Travel Sculpture), a geometrical white cardboard sculpture. Munari worked on travel sculptures during all his life, starting from 1960, using different materials such as paper, wood, plastic and iron.
Practical, cheap and super light, these foldable and light sculptures were devised by Munari as pieces that could have been carried around in a suitcase. When somebody arrived in an anonymous and lonely hotel room, they could have used the travel sculpture as an instant decorative piece and feel at home, recreating a sort of personal and private cultural dimension.
The two pieces will be part of the Established Master section at the twenty-fifth edition of Miart, the international modern and contemporary art fair in Milan (from 17th to 19th September 2021). The title for this year's exhibition is "Dismantling the silence" (taken from the eponymous collection of poems by Serbian-born American poet Charles Simić) and it will hopefully trigger dialogues between the past and the present, emerging artists and modern masters and history and experimentation.
Image credits for this post
Paolo Scheggi
Zone riflesse, 1964
Blue acrylic on three overlapped canvases
60 x 80 x 5 cm
Courtesy Tornabuoni Arte, Florence / Milan / Forte dei Marmi / Crans Montana / Paris
Bruno Munari
Scultura da viaggio 523, 1987
Cardboard
50 x 71.5 cm
Photo by Daniele de Lonti
Courtesy of Repetto Gallery, London
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