Regina Cassolo Bracchi | |
Birth Name: | Regina Prassede Cassolo |
Birth Date: | 21 May 1894 |
Birth Place: | Mede, Italy |
Death Place: | Milan, Italy |
Movement: | Movimento Arte Concreta |
Regina Cassolo Bracchi (1894–1974) was an Italian sculptor. She is known for her pioneering use of materials such as aluminum, wire, and tin.[1] She was part of the Futurist movement as well as the [2] and Spatialism.[3]
Bracchi née Cassolo was born in Mede on 21 May 1894.[4] She studied at the Brera Academy in Milan and then at the studio of Giovanni Battista Alloati (1878 - 1964) in Turin, Italy.[5] In 1934 she signed the Manifesto Tecnico dell'Aeroplastica Futurista (Technical Manifesto of Futurist Aeroplastics). In 1948 she joined the Movimento Arte Concreta.[6]
Cassolo died in Milan on 14 September 1974.[4]
In 2021 the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art) held a retrospective of her work.[7] The same year her work was in the exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.[8]