Regina Cassolo Bracchi Explained

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]

Life

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Regina Cassolo Bracchi - . Les presses du réel . 23 June 2024.
  2. Web site: Archive of Regina Cassolo Bracchi, Italy's first avant-garde sculptor, is born . Finestre sull'Arte . 23 June 2024 . en.
  3. Web site: Regina Cassolo Bracchi . AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes . 23 June 2024.
  4. Web site: Regina Cassolo Bracchi . abART . 22 June 2024.
  5. Web site: The "queen" of sculpture . GAMeC . 23 June 2024.
  6. Web site: Regina . Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 2011 . 23 June 2024 . en . 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00150010.
  7. Web site: Rediscovering Regina Cassolo Bracchi, Queen of Tin & Aluminium . Irenebrination: Notes on Architecture, Art, Fashion and Style . 23 June 2024.
  8. Book: Women in abstraction . 2021 . Thames & Hudson Ltd.; Thames & Hudson Inc . London : New York, New York . 978-0500094372 . 170.