Enzo Mari was an inventor of languages, a constructor of grammars -
intended as methods or sets of rules -, deeming these instruments
necessary to “communicate knowledge with improved quality and
efficiency”.It is impossible to define his discipline or his
profession: he is an artist, an industrial designer, a graphic
designer, an architect, but also a theorist, a pedagogue, an
intellectual, possibly a philosopher, certainly a utopian who knew
how to programme quiet revolutions which are, even today, often
misunderstood when not totally unknown; these are some of the many
facets of a complex and revolutionary personality. The root of his
design methodology, which characterises the process of all the
studies he later conducted, originates in his initial research into
the field of visual arts, i.e. the research into the perceptual
ambiguity of three-dimensional space that he undertook in the early
1950s, when he was still a scenography student at the Brera Academy
of Fine Arts. What characterises Mari’s design process is a
“scientific” method made up of codes, theorems, theses, the
construction of tools and instruments, tests, the comparison of
models and the transcription of results deriving from his
observations. This volume intend to return to the public a mnemonic
atlas, a mapping system that can be used to explore and understand
the complex nuances of the research conducted by Mari. Semantic
research and verifications that have resulted in the programming of
art, and which constitute the basis of the method that defines a
process common to all the research, disciplines and utopias he
pursued. Text in English and Italian.
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