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OTTAVIO MISSONI

A well-known Italian designer, he has also produced screen prints in his career, collaborating with major art studios. The Roots clarify the origins of the Missoni research, the first resources and sources of inspiration, in the field of visual arts and fashion. The frame of reference is that of the birth of the historical avant-gardes in Europe, from the lyrical abstractionism of Sonia Delaunay, indispensable together with Kandinsky and Klee, to the Futurism of Balla and Severini, to the affirmation, in the Thirties, of groups, magazines and research aimed at the definition of a geometric painting and sculpture, constructivist and concretist in character. In this context, an expressive language based on the rhythmic composition of shapes and colours used in a pure manner asserted itself, a language that the Missonis translated and re-elaborated into the central motifs of their creative process.