Ivo Pannaggi (
Macerata, August 28, 1901–
Macerata, May 11, 1981) was an
Italians Painting and
architect who was active in the
Futurism movement and later associated with the
Bauhaus.
Biography
Pannaggi was born in Macerata in 1901. He studied architecture in
Rome and
Florence.
Pannaggi lived in
Berlin between 1927 and 1929.
He moved to
Norway in 1939 and returned to Italy in 1971.
Art
Futurism
Pannaggi joined the Futurist movement in 1918, but left soon after because of disagreements with Fillippo Marinetti.
In 1922, he and
Vinicio Paladini published their “Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art."
The
manifesto emphasized the importance of machine aesthetics (
arte meccanica), which became one of the dominant strands of Futurism in the 1920s.
He and Paladini also staged the Mechanical Futurist Ballet (
Ballo meccano futurista) at Anton Giulio Bragaglia's Casa d'Arte.
Around the same time he painted Speeding Train (Treno in corsa), perhaps his most famous work.
He also created many photomontage works. In Postal Collages (1925), Pannaggi created a series of unfinished photomontages that would be completed through the inevitable addition of stamps and seals by —an early instance of mail art.
Germany and the Bauhaus
In 1927, Pannaggi traveled to Berlin, where he would live until 1929.
He became friends with
Kurt Schwitters and
Walter Benjamin and published photomontage works in German newspapers.
Between 1932 and 1933, Pannaggi attended the Bauhaus, the only Futurist other than Nicolaj Diugheroff to do so.
Exhibition History
His art was exhibited at the Civic Museum of Palazzo Mosca in Macerata (1922), Yale University Art Gallery (1941), Galleria Studio di Arte Moderna in Rome (1969), and at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in
Paris (1981).
His work is held at many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Stedelijk Museum.
Further reading
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Ivo Pannaggi, Ivo Pannaggi (Oslo: Reclamo Trykkeri, 1962).
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Pannaggi, exhibition catalog (Rome: Studio d’Arte Moderna, 1969).
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Enrico Crispolti, Il mito della macchina e altri teni del futurismo (Trapani, Italy: Laterza, 1969), 393.
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Enrico Crispolti, Pannaggi e l'arte meccanica futurista (Milan: Mazzotta, 1995).
