Regina Cassolo Bracchi

 
Born in Mede Lomellina, the daughter of a butcher and orphaned at a young age, Regina (Regina Cassolo Bracchi, 1894-1974) was the first woman of the Italian vanguard to focus entirely on sculpture, of which she reinterpreted the language in a daring and experimental manner, drawing on academic and naturalistic research and applying it to her original use of materials. Aluminum, iron wire, sandpaper, tin, and tinplate were the favored media in a constant compositional and expressive investigation which initially embraced the sphere of Futurism (in 1934 she undersigned the Manifesto tecnico dell'aeroplastica futurista) and then that of the MAC, the "Movimento arte concreta" (1948), which Regina approached in 1951 through Bruno Munari.
 
Regina Cassolo Bracchi - Regina
2021
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
GAMeC Books
Reference monograph dedicated to Regina Cassolo Bracchi, in art Regina (1894-1974), one of the most fascinating, innovative, and to this day lesser-known figures of the European artistic panorama of the twentieth century.


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