Gianni Colombo
Illustration — Signature of Gianni Colombo, 1990 Gianni Colombo (Milan, 1933 – Melzo, 3 February 1993) was an Italian artist, member of the kinetic art movement. In the 1960s, Colombo attended Accademia di Brera in Milan, where he met Davide Boriani, Gabriele De Vecchi, Giovanni Anceschi and Grazia Varisco. Together they formed "Gruppo T", a collective of artists interested in investigating the relationship between images and movement and the participatory element of art through kinetic forms.
Gianni Colombo
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- Died
- 1993 · Melzo.
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- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
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- sculptor · painter · artist · designer
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- multi-media art · design · objet d'art · kinetic artist
- Education
- Brera Academy
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Signature of Gianni Colombo, 1990 Gianni Colombo (Milan, 1933 – Melzo, 3 February 1993) was an Italian artist, member of the kinetic art movement. In the 1960s, Colombo attended Accademia di Brera in Milan, where he met Davide Boriani, Gabriele De Vecchi, Giovanni Anceschi and Grazia Varisco. Together they formed "Gruppo T", a collective of artists interested in investigating the relationship between images and movement and the participatory element of art through kinetic forms.
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"Acrilica" Table Lamp is dated ca. Recorded as sculptor, painter, artist and designer.
Signature of the italian artist Gianni Colombo, 1987: performed on the catalogue of the IV Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea of Marostica.
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1937
Gianni Colombo was born in 1937 at Milan.
1979
Borgotondo is dated 1979.
1983
Monumento alla Resistenza europea is dated 1983.
1993
Gianni Colombo died in 1993 at Melzo.
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- Colombo, Gianni, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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Through his work Colombo dealt mainly with the perception of space, creating architectural environments and using a variety of supports including mechanical ones. He was awarded the Grand Prize of the Venice Biennale of 1968 with one of its most famous works, elastic space. In 1985, he became director of Accademia di Brera, where he also taught. In 1986, Colombo expanded his activities to theatre (he was a set designer for the Operstheater in Frankfurt) and architecture.
Gianni Colombo studied at Brera Academy. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is multi-media art, design and objet d'art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Milan. Employment is recorded with Brera Academy. Work by Gianni Colombo is recorded in the collections of Design Museum Gent, Museum of Modern Art, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Museo di arte Contemporanea all'aperto di Morterone.
• Documenta IV. Catalogue of the exhibition, Kassel 1968. • Kimpel, Harald / Stengel, Karin: documenta IV 1968, Internationale Ausstellung. Eine fotografische Rekonstruktion, Bremen 2007,. • Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marcella Beccaria (eds), Gianni Colombo. Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea 2009. Milano, Skira, 2009,.
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- 2.Archivio Gianni Colombo.
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Colombo, Gianni, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011Crossref registry
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Gianni Colombo worked in multi-media art, design, objet d'art, kinetic artist and installation art. He was employed by Brera Academy. He worked at Milan.
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Design Museum Gent, Museum of Modern Art, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Museo di arte Contemporanea all'aperto di Morterone
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