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Tata Ovvero del Ludico: Tatoy Presenta La Collezione Ludica
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Limited edition, ring binder catalog/artist’s book published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Galleria TOT in Padua in 1982, curated by the Italian artist and graphic designer Ennio Chiggio (1938-2020). Both Galleria TOT and its immediate predecessor, Gruppo TATA, were co-founded by Chiggio, whose interests in experimental music, visual poetry, graphic and industrial design prefigured a Dada and Fluxus-influenced program at TOT that explored the intersection of art, design, language, play, and industry with notable projects involving Radical Design groups Ultramobile, Memphis, Alchimia, and Gufram. Tata ovvero del Ludico was an early project with an emphasis on fun and play (ludic) manifested in multicolor collages involving pop culture and art world figures such as Woody Allen, Marilyn Monroe, Marcel Duchamp, and Le Corbusier. Along with Chiggio, contributors to the project and catalog include: Maurizio Baruffi, Roberto de Santi, Paola Casagrande, Francesca Dal Farra, Thomas Garner, Betty Mignanti, Paolo Pavan, and Ernesto Luciano Francalanci. The manufacturer Tatoy srl was lined up to produce the resulting design/art pieces. 4to (9” x 12.25”), cloth-covered boards with a front pocket and ring binder, approximately 36 loose unnumbered pages, color and b/w illustrations throughout, text in Italian. Produced in an edition of about 200 copies.Tipped in on the front pocket is a sticker with the words Contiene il significato (It contains the significance); inside the pocket is a stiff folded page that opens to reveal the word SIGNIFICATO—an inside joke, as it were. Laid in the pocket is also a Tatoy card and a three-page handwritten letter presenting the book to Leila and Massimo Vignelli from the Tatoy representative in New York. A scarce and significant postmodern document with a strong association to boot.
- Creator:Ennio Chiggio (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 12.25 in (31.12 cm)Width: 9 in (22.86 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
- Style:Post-Modern (Of the Period)
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- Period:1980-1989
- Date of Manufacture:1982
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Two small damp stains to boards, not affecting interior.
- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU828548216172
Ennio Chiggio
Multidisciplinary artist, sculptor and designer Ennio Chiggio was not only known for his Space Age lamps and voluptuous, modular Environ sofas, but he was also renowned as a technological innovator, electronic music producer and researcher, who explored the relationship between mathematics and art.
Born in 1938 in Naples, Chiggio studied technology and art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. While still in school, in 1957, Chiggio began painting kinetic art using tempera on cardboard and ink on paper. By 1960, he had joined the artists’ collective Gruppo N, founded by Alberto Biasi, Edoardo Landi, Manfredo Massironi and Toni Costa.
With Gruppo N, Chiggio participated in several exhibitions such as “Programmed Art,” presented by Italian intellectual Umberto Eco, which showed in Milan, Venice and Rome in 1962 and in London and New York in 1964. By the following year, Chiggio’s interests had turned to sound and music production, and he founded the Group of Experimental Phonology NPS (New Proposals Sound) with pianist and composer Teresa Rampazzi.
From 1964 to ’77, Chiggio operated a design studio that focused on furniture and lighting as well as glass and electromechanical objects. His most well-known lighting includes the Ciot floor lamp for Italian manufacturer Lumenform, sculptural table lamps and wall sconces for Emmezeta.
After closing his design studio in 1978, Chiggio dedicated his time to teaching, serving as a professor of design and industrial aesthetics at his alma mater. In 1996, he opened the Embtool multimedia research laboratory in Padua, where he made short films about art and architecture and conducted computational music research, exploring the relationship between mathematical models and artistic expression.
Throughout the 2000s until his death in 2020, Chiggio participated in several exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the MACBA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Buenos Aires and Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch, Germany. Public collections throughout Italy and Germany also feature his works.
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