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Bruno Munari (1907-1998) was an Italian artist, designer and inventor, who played a key role in 20th-century art, design, and graphic culture. He began his career during the Second Futurism movement and became renowned for his experimental approach to painting, sculpture, film, photography and industrial and graphic design. 

His work explored the intersection of art and everyday life, advocating for utility and functionality in creative practice. Munari also revolutionized education through his focus on play, tactile and kinesthetic learning, and creative development. He dedicated special attention to childhood, designing books, book-objects, and games that stimulated imagination and critical thinking. 

His integrative vision was reflected in his statement: «Art should not be separated from life: things that are pleasing to the eye but useless in practice ought not to exist.” His legacy continues to inspire artists and designers worldwide.  

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Mari Chordà (Amposta, 1942) is an artist, poet, and feminist activist. She studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and from a very young age began experimenting with pictorial representations of the female body such as the series Vaginals and later, in 1966 in Paris, Autorretrats embarassada (Pregnant Self-Portraits), a series dedicated to pregnancy and motherhood. 

She actively participated in cultural and political initiatives, becoming a key figure in the feminist movements that emerged in the 1960s. In 1968, she founded the cultural space Lo Llar in Amposta, co-founded the bar-library LaSal in Barcelona in 1977, followed a year later by its namesake publishing house, the first explicitly feminist press in Spain.

Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, the MUSAC in León, CCCB in Barcelona, and Lo Pati in Amposta, and is part of the permanent collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MACBA, and MNAC. 

As a poet she published Quadern del cos i l’aigua with illustrations of Montse Clavé (1978 and reissued in 2024), Locomotora infidel pel passat (1988), Umbilicals (2000) and No com un so (2022).

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