"In the beginning was the pencil" the theme that the Circuito Lombardo Musei del Design has chosen for the FuoriSalone 2019. For the occasion the Fratelli Cozzi Museum will present the studies of four splendid trophies created by Lucio Fontana, Agenore Fabbri, Giò Pomodoro, Bruno Munari and now kept in the CozziLab.

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE PENCIL DRAW THE PROJECT

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For the second year the Museum returns to the Archivio Giovanni Sacchi in Sesto San Giovanni, on the occasion of Milano Design Week 2019.

Last year the Museums exhibited an iconic object from their collections, while in this edition the drawings will be the protagonists.
The Design Museums preserve in their archives an extraordinary patrimony of sketches, technical drawings, proofs of authorship, executives, notes and visual notes drawn by designers during the process of creating a product.
In a phase in which the push digitization of the design production chain risks overshadowing the expressive quality of the designer's graphic sign, it is important to dedicate the exhibition to the "hand"of designers.

"... this trophy that is born from forms inside the sphere, from arcs, rings, circular crowns, has not, like the sphere, a determined base, but several bases and inside a vortex of rings, which moves in absolute space...". Bruno Munari

In the drawings on display you will find technical studies, preparatory sketches and settings of the objects; "different hands" and different ways to express your ideas. Showing them to the public is a tribute to the designers and a stimulus not to abandon the pencil.
In addition to the Fratelli Cozzi Museum, the following are on display: Aiap Cdpg, Centro di Documentazione sul Progetto Grafico Archivio Giovanni Sacchi, Museo Fisogni delle Pompe di Benzina, ISEC Foundation, Kartell, Molteni Museum, MUMAC Museum, Gruppo Cimbali, SAME Museum, ZambonMuseum.

For the occasion, the Fratelli Cozzi Museum has decided to exhibit the studies of 4 trophies made since 1963 when, in Alfa Romeo, the initiative to coin a prototype of a plaque-sculpture, a memorial block that rewards the runners, on the track or on the road, who have honoured the colours of Alfa Romeo in the vintage.

To recall the national character of the Alfa, the promoters chose as the first artist in order of time a well-known Roman sculptor of the mature generation "Pericle Fazzini". The following year the honor was given to Lucio Fontana, born in Rosario di Santa Fè in Argentina in 1899, was one of the most prestigious names in contemporary art and is considered the founder of "Spatialism". Fontana participated in the revival of an art of fantasy compared to the formal canons of the Novecento. His works are present in all the main Italian and foreign museums, especially in Germany. He is the author of monumental works such as a door of the Duomo of Milan.

In 1966 it was Giò Pomodoro who created the alfista trophy. Born in Orciano di Pesaro in 1930, Pomodoro is one of the undisputed protagonists of international sculpture. He began his career as a jewellery maker, then he came to the forefront of the general public, like his brother Arnaldo, in the field of sculpture defined as "informal", with "assemblage" techniques using different materials, from wood to fabric. Then he dedicated himself to great sculpture where his suns, wheels and monumental objects remain memorable.

The following year, the work will be created by Bruno Munari: "Cretatore dell'oggetto" with all the theoretical implications that come out of the traditional techniques and genres. He was the first in Italy to build the so-called "useless machines" in wood, kinetic and constantly changing structures.

Agenore Blacksmiths

Born in Barba di Pistoia in 1911, Fabbri has always been a research artist. He started out as a Rhaetist and then moved to Milan after the war, where he made light of terracottas of animals and men that seemed to have been burnt by the war. Fabbri then began a series of "spatial" researches that for him are not abstract but rather images of man's present condition in the existential anguish of the threats of war and barbarism. He created some monuments to the resistance and many of his works are in museums all over the world from Antwerp to Boston, from Beijing to Sao Paulo.