MUNARI, Bruno
Xerografia [EN]

Starting in 1963, Bruno Munari conducted experiments with the Xerox 914 machine, experiments that would continue throughout his career.
In 1970, for his participation in the Venice Biennale, he made a Xerox machine available for an experimental workshop.
It was on this occasion that Xerografia: Documentazione sull'uso creativo delle macchine Rank Xerox (Xerography: Documentation on the Creative Use of Rank Xerox Machines) was published, providing instructions on how to repurpose the commercial machine to create original images and works of art.
Ranging from the abstract to the figurative, Munari's works created on the Xerox machine distort the original subject by shifting the images across the machine's surface during the scanning process.
As Munari wrote, "Current technological possibilities offer (…) the opportunity for everyone to produce objects of aesthetic value." It is thus the conditions of the work's production that are questioned, and to a certain extent, the democratization of art.
Reissued for the first time since 1970, Xerografia allows us to appreciate the relevance of Bruno Munari's thinking.

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Published by Christophe Daviet-Théry, 2026
Artists' Books / Graphic Design