Ivo Pannaggi (

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, August 28, 1901–

, May 11, 1981) was an

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and

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who was active in the

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movement and later associated with the

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Biography

Pannaggi was born in Macerata in 1901. He studied architecture in

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and

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. Pannaggi lived in

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between 1927 and 1929. He moved to

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in 1939 and returned to Italy in 1971.

Art

Futurism

Pannaggi joined the Futurist movement in 1918, but left soon after because of disagreements with Fillippo Marinetti. In 1922, he and

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published their “Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art." The

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emphasized the importance of machine aesthetics (''arte meccanica''), which became one of the dominant strands of Futurism in the 1920s. He and Paladini also staged the Mechanical Futurist Ballet (''Ballo meccano futurista'') at Anton Giulio Bragaglia's Casa d'Arte. Around the same time he painted ''Speeding Train (Treno in corsa''), perhaps his most famous work. He also created many

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works. In ''Postal Collages'' (1925), Pannaggi created a series of unfinished photomontages that would be completed through the inevitable addition of stamps and seals by

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s—an early instance of

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Germany and the Bauhaus

In 1927, Pannaggi traveled to Berlin, where he would live until 1929. He became friends with

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and

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and published photomontage works in German newspapers. Between 1932 and 1933, Pannaggi attended the Bauhaus, the only Futurist other than Nicolaj Diugheroff to do so.

Exhibition History

His art was exhibited at the

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in Macerata (1922),

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(1941), Galleria Studio di Arte Moderna in Rome (1969), and at the

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(1981). His work is held at many museums, including the

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, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the

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Biography

Art

Futurism

Germany and the Bauhaus

Exhibition History

Further reading

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