La Triennale di Milano is a design museum and events venue located at Park Sempione in Milan, Italy. It hosts exhibitions highlighting contemporary Italian design, architecture, music, and media arts, highlighting the relationship between art and industry. The museum also features the Collezione Permanente, a permanent collection of art objects in contemporary Italian design.
Like searching for a hidden chamber in an ancient temple, I came across a Mid-Century collection of photos from La Triennial di Milano deep in the archives of the Lombardy Cultural Heritage collection. Getting there was a challenge as I don’t read Italian and Google Translate abandoned me, but my intuition prevailed on my hunch in the end. It was worth the perseverance as some really intriguing images representing some of the artists of this era were on display. Most of the images are from the fifties and are in Black & White which was de rigueur for a lot of photographers then. Excellent composition and use of shadows characterise the photos of modernist inspired ceramics, furniture and sculpture.
X Triennale – Sempione Park. 1954
Ceramic High Relief “Madonna and child enthroned” – Angelo Biancini
X Triennial 1954 Scandinavian exhibit
Federico Patellani
XI Triennale 1957
Abstract design dish with wrought iron tripod in the section of the Exhibition of Ceramic Art Productions
photo: Sergio Bersani
X Triennale – France display – Plaster Sculpture “El’ll think” – Ossip Zadkine
Photo: Giancolombo
Ceramic pencil holders
Photo Aldo Bailo
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Quatterini Oreste – Careerism
MAGA – Museum Art Gallarate, Milan, 1974
“Le marin à la guitare” – Jacques Lipchitz
XI Triennial
Foto Mercurio
X Triennial – Stig Lindberg modernist ceramic forms
Constantin Brancusi – Portrait of Mademoiselle Pogany
The Embracers – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Vases from the Spainish section. XI Triennial 1957
X Triennale – Giovanni Gariboldi
Photo Dainesi
X Triennial – ceramic amphora vase – Ernestine Cannon
1954
1957 XI Triennial – Vase in the shape of fish in the section of the Exhibition of Ceramic Art Productions
photo: Sergio Bersani
Ceramic vase/pitcher by Leon Ferrari
X Milano Triennial – 1954
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, carved in 1914.
The writer Ezra Pound recognised Gaudier’s genius and was keen to promote and support him, and so commissioned the artist to do a portrait bust and bought a block of stone for the purpose. Pound understood the importance of direct carving as a marker of modernism.
Sculpture Portrait of H. Rouart – Medardo Rosso
XI Triennale – Parco Sempione
X Triennale – Exhibition of art schools – Ceramic Vase
Foto: Ancillotti
XI Milano Triennale – 1957
Mid-Century modernist bottles
XI Triennale – modern ceramic vessels 1957
Sergio Bersani – Giornalfoto
1954 X Triennale – Germany ceramic exhibit
Marcello Fantoni tall pitchers
Anthropomorphic sculpture ‘ Scream ‘ by Aldo Zuliani
1973
Reliquary Bust of Saint’Ottaviano silver and gold of the fifteenth century
XI Trienniel 1957 – photo: Sergio Bersani
Terracotta display of Lazio and Campania in the Italian Show Productions section
1957
XI Triennale – abstract ceramic vessel ( maybe a teapot )
Milan 1957
XI Triennale Ceramic Ornaments in the Yugoslavia display
1957
XI Triennale – French exhibition – Sculpture and bowl by Charles Zublena
XI Trienniel 1957 – photo: Sergio Bersani
Sculpture “Mushrooms blacks” by Alexander Calder
International Exhibition of Sempione Park, Milan 1957
photo: Sergio Bersani
XI Triennale – – International exhibition of sculpture in the park Sempione- Sculpture “Draped reclining figure” – Henry Moore
Photo Mercury
XI Triennale Scandinavian exhibit
Sculpture “Bouquet” – Pablo Picasso
Park Sempione XI Triennale 1957
An exhibit at the Triennale di Milano reconstructs, 50 years later, the fundamental moments in the construction of Brazil’s new capital.
Sculpture “Grand Cheval” – Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Park Sempione XI Triennale 1957
Vases designed by Angelo Mangiarotti
Photo : Aldo Bailo
Milano – VII Triennale d’Arte – 1940 (?) Angelo Biancini, Diana,
XI Triennale – Section of Yugoslavia – Porcelain Pitcher – Majda Kumar
1957
X Trienniel 1954 – Ceramic bottles Guido Gambone
X Trienniel 1954 – Ceramiche Guido Gambone
X Trienniel 1954 ceramic vessel – Guido Gambone
X Triennale – France – Sculpture in bronze and brass lined – Antoine Pevsner
Farabola
X Milan Trienniel 1954 – Ceramic wall plaques-Sweden – Stig Lindberg
XI Triennale 1957 – Alabaster sculpture by Mirko Basaldella.
photo: Sergio Bersani
XI Triennial selection of ceramics – 1957
Milan – VII Art Triennial. Guido Andloviz, two ceramic pots
1940
Photo – Simone Magnolini
Forms Symbol – Pasquale Martini
X Triennial Stig Lindberg ceramic vases
Storage cabinet modernist – Mrio Tedeschi 1951
Emilio Scanavino Italian ceramic vessel
Emilio started working with clay in the early Fifties, in Tullio Mazzotti’s studio in Albissola Marina.
( http://www.thatsarte.com/ )
The sign of the memory – George Robustelli
Column n. XXVII
Lucio Del Pezzo
‘ The wonder’ – Cornini Marco
In the land of Persephone
Borghi Paolo
Middle finger salute – Maurizio Cattelan
MAGA
Fernanda Borio – 1951
‘ Portrait of Silvio Zanella ‘
Mario Galvagni
MAGA – Museum Art Gallarate
Portrait of a Man – Klaus Zaugg, 1980 – Milan
( Shot with a film camera, the falling car hasn’t been created in photoshop )
Rognoni Franco
Exposition – BUSATO Gualtiero
Aldo Bailo – Optical Projection
Costantino Nivolaz – Mothers Secret
Cubist Torso,- 1987 – Jim di Rich
All above images sourced from www.LombardiaBeniCulturali.it
