Xerografia

The first reprint since its original publication in 1970 of Bruno Munari’s legendary artist’s book Xerografia: an intimate insight into Munari’s pioneering experiments with the Xerox machine, in which technology becomes a tool for poetic and visual exploration.

Focusing on Munari’s experiments with the Xerox 914 Machine, which began in 1963 and would continue throughout his entire career, the presentation brings a selection of works documented in his seminal book Xerografia: Documentazione sull’uso creativo delle macchine Rank Xerox. Published in conjunction with Munari’s participation in the 1970 Venice Biennale, to which Munari contributed a Xerox machine to an experimental laboratory within the Biennale, the book provides instructions on the many ways to subvert the commercial machine’s function to create original images and artworks. Ranging from abstract to figurative, Munari’s Xerox works distort the original subject as he moved images across the devices surface for the duration of the scanning process.