Part of the XVI Settimana della Lingua Italiana: L’italiano e la creatività: marchi e costumi, moda e design
Artist Anna Caione presents a modern history of Italian design and how it defined a generation.
Financial aid from the United States of America in the 1950s enabled a new democratic, post-war Italy to rapidly reconstruct its industrial sectors, providing a catalyst for the birth of a new aesthetic from architects and designers. This resulted in Italy taking on a very unique visual and design aesthetic, in which the rest of the world began to take interest.
This design combined creativity, originality and innovation where it has been described as containing a humanness, where there is interaction between a designed object and the user. Other lend of sophisticated and modern industry with a regenerated tradition of artisanal craft and Fine Arts.
This lecture begins at turn of the 19th Century and then focuses on how Italy became a world leader of manufacturing and design from1945 onwards with the rapid introduction of production lines including that of Automobile producers Alfa Romeo, FIAT and Vespa, typewriting machine manufacturer Olivetti, manufacturing firms such as Alessi, Kartel, Floss and various Italian fashion Designers.
BIOGRAPHY:
Anna Caione is a Melbourne born artist of Italian descent. In 1994 she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT University, Melbourne, followed by a Diploma of Fine Arts from the Accademia Albertina, Turin, Italy (1995) and a Master of Arts by Research, Monash University, Melbourne (2002). Anna has taught 20th Century Design History and Art at several Melbourne tertiary institutions including Swinburne University and RMIT.
She has exhibited work both in Australia and overseas and received a number of grants and awards including an Arts Victoria Travelling Grant. Anna was a finalist in exhibitions including the John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria and the Metro 5 Gallery Art Award, Melbourne, and the McGivern Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery.
Research interests include Arte Povera and process art movements, the art of the Italian Renaissance, contemporary painting and the history of Italian Design.
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