Angelo Mangiarotti
Electa 2023
English and Italian translations of the catalogue by Scriptum
The catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name at Triennale Milano (27 January – 23 April 2023). It reviews over sixty years of Angelo Mangiarotti’s achievement through a broad selection of works, projects, documents and previously unpublished materials accompanied by essays and testimonies by designers, intellectuals and his collaborators.
An architect, designer, and sculptor, Angelo Mangiarotti (Milan, 1921-2012) represents the ideal profile of the second-generation Milanese architect: a humanist and intellectual, cosmopolitan in his training and friendships, an academic and professional active in the field of architecture and design beginning in the 1950s, a fearless experimenter and innovator of the technique he strove to introduce within the intense debate inherent to his profession.
His biography partly reflects some traits typical of the generation that governed reconstruction and the Italian economic miracle; but it also expresses the heroic effort to give a face to industry, shaping a direct and innovative language of its workplaces and intervening in the material processes of production to achieve the poetry of unique and time-resistant objects.