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SILVER Seller in Ferrara, Italy
HIGH QUALITY MOBILE BAR from the 1950s Veneered in Maple and Mahogany Italy (attribution to arch. Ico Parisi) Domenico Parisi (known as Ico Parisi) was born in Palermo on 23 September 1916. After the war, which saw him engaged on the Russian front, with his wife Luisa Aiani he opened the La Ruota studio in Como, directing its activities towards design and architecture interiors (1948). He designs furniture for companies including Cassina, M.I.M., Singer, Altamira, Longhi, Cappellini. He also designs ceramics, glass and jewelry. He graduated in architecture in Lausanne (1950) and in 1955 he enrolled at the College of Industrial Experts in Como. He exhibited at the 34th Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in Paris. In the meantime he designed the furnishings for the State Library (Milan, 1947) and the displays for the Journalism Exhibition (Milan 1948) and for the Bergamo Fair (Bergamo, 1950). The first building projects and the collaboration with artists date back to this period, including L. Fontana, F. Somaini, B. Munari, M. Radice, in the name of the synthesis of the arts, or the integration between rationalism and abstract art . From the collaboration with Gruppo T and F. Somaini the "Human Containers" were born in 1968. The projects "Ipotesi per una Casa Existenziale" (1972) and "Operazione Arcevia Comunità Existenziale" (1974) were born from the relationship with the critics P. Restany and E. Crispolti. The artists involved include D. Hanson, César, C. Close, A. Burri, A. Cavaliere, T. Guerra, M. Antonioni. "Operation Arcevia" took part in the Venice Biennale in 1976 and was exhibited at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome (1979). From the end of the Seventies the series of "Utopias" was born, works poised between art and architectural vision, of which "Freedom is coming out of the box" was presented at the 1978 Venice Biennale, "Realisable Utopia" at the Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie di Venezia (1978), "Apocalypse Gentile" at the INARCH in Rome (1979), at the Museo d'Ixelles in Brussels (1980) and at Palace of Diamonds in Ferrara (1981). He took part in Documenta Urbana in Kassel (1982) and in the exhibition "Les annèes 50" at the Center Pompidou, Paris (1988). In 1984 he created a retrospective of drawings at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris and at the Center ADP in Lille. In 1986 the first anthological exhibition dedicated to him was held at the Pavilion of Contemporary Art in Milan entitled "Ico Parisi: the Workshop of the Possible", followed by "Ico Parisi: & Architecture" (1990) and "Ico Parisi: & Drawings" (1994) at the Galleria Civica of Modena, to which he donated his graphics archives in 1994. The Ico and Luisa Parisi Collection has been preserved in the Civic Art Gallery of Palazzo Volpi in Como since 1995. He died in Como on 19 December 1996.
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