LA FONDAZIONE JACQUELINE VODOZ E BRUNO DANESE

La Fondazione Jacqueline Vodoz e Bruno Danese ha sede a Milano in Via S. Maria Fulcorina 17.
In questa sede è raccolto e sistematizzato il Fondo Jacqueline Vodoz e Bruno Danese costituito dalle Collezioni d’Arte e dall’Archivio Storico del Design – Fondo DEM, Danese e Meneguzzo dal 1955 al 1957 e  Fondo della Danese dal 1957 al 1991.
L’intero patrimonio è raccolto e disponibile alla consultazione negli archivi della Fondazione.
Il Fondo comprende anche una sezione fotografica che documenta l’intera produzione di design, le opere delle Collezioni d’Arte ed include il Fondo Fotografico Jacqueline Vodoz.
Nella sezione archivistica si trovano inoltre tutti i documenti Cartacei e Librari raccolti dal 1957 ad oggi.

The Foundation’s Archives and Collections have been recognized for having "exceptional cultural, historical and interpersonal interest and significance relating to cultural identity" in 2013, by the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Regional Directorate for Cultural and Natural Heritage of Lombardy

HISTORY

The Jacqueline Vodoz and Bruno Danese Foundation houses a collection of works, objects, photographs and documents collected by Jacqueline Vodoz and Bruno Danese from 1957. This was the year the couple embarked on an adventure together that endured until Jacqueline Vodoz passed away in 2005. Founding the DANESE company, they invented a new method of production entailing Editori di Design, which became known all over the world for its high quality and original approach to integrating art and manufacturing through producing home and office objects, art editions and children's toys.

Between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, Jacqueline Vodoz and Bruno Danese pursued joint projects with some artist-designers like Bruno Munari and Enzo Mari, who reflect upon art and seriality, uniqueness and plurality, upon the object and the aesthetic qualities of the material that constitutes it. They sponsored initiatives that revolutionized the industry, yet they spoke the language of art. For over thirty years, the public has been able to visit the Danese showroom in Milan to witness a company that produces objects, but above all to encounter an enterprise that produces culture through behavior, events and exhibitions. In a wholly innovative way, they provided a dialectic space to foreground the contradictions and shifts of thought that design research reveals.

MISSION AND ORGANISATION

The Jacqueline Vodoz and Bruno Danese Foundation was established in 2006 and has its registered office in Via Santa Maria Fulcorina 17, Milan.

Institutional aims

The Foundation, in order to pursue education, culture, study and research, has the following aims:

A - to safeguard, promote, diffuse, celebrate, collect, archive and house objects, works, documents, projects and books collected or produced by Jaqueline Vodoz and Bruno Danese from the 1950s. The collection spans design and visual arts in accordance with the far-reaching concept of design and aesthetic research, leading to a wealth of heritage of exceptional value and rare coherence which acts as an important testimony to the era.

B - to organize events, meetings and exhibitions

C - to give scholars, researchers and students access to the spaces dedicated to exhibiting and displaying the Foundation's assets and archives

La Fondazione è amministrata da un Consiglio di Amministrazione il cui presidente è:

Emilio Aguzzi de Villeneuve

Curatrice e Responsabile: Manuela Cirino

Collaboratrice e Archivista: Isabella Di Pietro

PRESERVED HERITAGE: ARCHIVE AND COLLECTIONS

Ciò ha reso possibile la creazione di un vasto patrimonio, oggi custodito dalla Fondazione e suddiviso in due grandi nuclei: l’Archivio storico del Design (Fondo DEM Danese Meneguzzo dal 1955 al 1957 e Fondo della Danese dal 1957 al 1991) e le Collezioni d’Arte.

The Historical Archive of Design is home to examples of all produced works, prototypes, sketches and drawings, photographs, exhibition designs, graphic design and packaging materials, and publications complete with magazines, catalogues and books.

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The Art Collections, including pieces by Fulvio Bianconi, Mario Ballocco, Franco Meneguzzo, Enzo Mari, and works of Informalism, Kinetic and Programmed Art, also include a vast collection of works by Bruno Munari dating from 1927 to 1996 – a testimony to the close relationship the artist had with Jacqueline Vodoz and Bruno Danese.

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The Foundation's main objectives aim at conserving, promoting and enhancing the Art Collections and the Historical Archives of Design by cataloguing activities, aiding researchers and students, loaning works to museums around the world and hosting exhibitions and projects.

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THE JACQUELINE VODOZ AND BRUNO DANESE ASSOCIATION

In 1991, after selling the Danese company, Jacqueline Vodoz and Bruno Danese founded the cultural association named after them, which remained active until 2005. The Association strived to be a place that promoted the exchanging of ideas, an objective upheld by the three pillars of PROMOTION, TRANSMISSION and CONSERVATION. Numerous exhibitions were held in the renovated spaces of Via S. Maria Fulcorina 17 in Milan, alongside all the cataloguing of the archives that went on to form the basis for the future Foundation, launched in 2006.

 Il costante impegno dei fondatori per la cura degli Archivi e delle Collezioni  è stato decisivo per la costituzione della Fondazione che prosegue oggi le attività già avviate dall’associazione, privilegiando maggiormente gli aspetti della Trasmissione e della Conservazione.

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