The Time Machine arrives in Veneto with an event organized by the Banca Popolare di Marostica Volsbank Foundation and promoted by the Italia Liberty cultural association.
On Saturday 3 September, at 5.30 pm, at the Sala del Buongoverno, headquarters of the Banca Popolare in Corso Mazzini 84, with the patronage of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage MiBACT, the presentation of the monograph entitled “Mario Mirko Vucetich (1898- 1975). Architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing ”, edited by Andrea Speziale published by Silvana Editoriale.
The evening will be hosted by the scientific popularizer, writer and journalist Alessandro Cecchi Paone with interviews by the author Andrea Speziale and the President of the Foundation, Roberto Xausa.
The volume contains the first monographic study dedicated to Mario Mirko Vucetich, an original artist of great versatility, whose name, linked to great successes in life, today deserves to be duly remembered. Of Dalmatian origins and Vicenza by adoption, he distinguished himself as an architect, offering a personal interpretation of the Liberty and Art Déco taste in various buildings such as Villa Margherita on the Lido of Venice, Villa del Meloncello in Bologna, or the innovative Villa Antolini in Riccione . His artistic exuberance has also given excellent evidence in the sculptural field, welcoming at first symbolist suggestions then linked to the poetics of the twentieth century, witnessed by The First Sleep visible in the Giardini della Biennale and Il Commercio, exhibited at EUR. Also devoted to painting and drawing, he has participated in several editions at the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadriennale, obtaining prizes and awards as a portraitist.
A curious and multifaceted personality, Vucetich was also a poet, translator, set designer, director and actor: one of his best known legacies is the famous Chess Game of Marostica, designed in 1954 with a large apparatus that made it the great show of happened which is still today.
The volume introduced by the essays by Vittorio Sgarbi and Giorgio Di Genova, is divided into thematic chapters, contains a rich iconographic catalog and is completed by a register of the works.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Mirko_Vucetich
"La città nuova". Disegno di Mirko Vucetich
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