33 RASSEGNA
ALDO ANDREANI 1909/1945
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]
Vittorio Gregotti [Direttore responsabile]: 33 RASSEGNA: ALDO ANDREANI 1909/1945. Bologne: Editrice CIPIA, 1988. Original edition [anno X, 33/1– marzo 1988]. Text in Italian with parallel captions in English. Quarto. Plain thick wrappers. Printed dust jacket. 88 [xxx] pp. 182 illustrations. Illustrated articles and advertisments. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Wrappers lightly worn: a very good or better copy.
9 x 12 soft cover book with 118 pages and 182 illustrations, some in color. The bulk of the journal [88 pages] is devoted to Aldo Andreani's sculpture and architecture from 1909 to 1945.
- Editoriale by Vittorio Gregotti
- Aldo Andreani artista contrastato by Rossana Bossaglia
- La Camera di Commercio di Mantova e gli esordi architettonica by Amedeo Belluzzi
- L'"officinal di Dedalo": itinerary milanesi tra progetti e realizzazioni by Fulvio Irace
- Palatium Vetus et Palatium Novum: un problematico restauro mantovano by Marco Dezzi Bardeschi
- Regesto delle opera e dei progetti 1909/1945
- Illustrated advertising section
Aldo Andreani (1887– 1971) was an Italian architect and sculptor. Andreani trained as an architect at the San Luca Academy in Rome and then graduated from the Milan Polytechnic under the guidance of Gaetano Moretti. He moved to Milan at the end of World War I and combined the study of sculpture with a flourishing architectural career initiated in Mantua in 1909 and based on that city’s Renaissance models.
He began attending the first special course in sculpture at the Brera Academy in 1927, and developed a new interest in the solidity of volumes and simplification of forms under the guidance of his teacher Adolph Wildt. He was active as a sculptor above all in the 1930s with a large range of portraits and religious works as well as allegories and celebrations of the Fascist regime serving as architectural decoration. Andreani held his first solo show at the Galleria Pesaro in Milan from December 1931 to January 1932 and took part in the Venice Biennial (Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della città di Venezia) in 1934 and the Paris International Exposition in 1937, where he was awarded a silver medal for a series of decorative high-relief works for the vestibule of the Italian Pavilion.
As an architect, he received major commissions for residential buildings in Mantua and in Milan, where he was also involved in the renovation of Piazza San Babila.
Under the loose directorship of Vittorio Gregotti, Rassegna was an Italian Design magazine underwritten by six Italian firms: Ariston, B&B Italia, Castelli, iGuzzini illuminazione, Molteni and co., and Sabiem. Each issue was devoted to a single designer or theme and lavishly produced, with high-quality reproduction and carefully selected and presented illustrations.