LACY SOTO | DATE 3/29/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles presents Jeffrey Schnapp and Peter Lunenfeld launching Bruno Munari's 'Fantasy'

Saturday, March 29, at 3 PM PST, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth in Downtown Los Angeles presents a conversation between Fantasy translator Jeffrey Schnapp and writer and educator Peter Lunenfeld on the first-ever English translation of Fantasy: Invention, Creativity, and Imagination in Visual Communications, Bruno Munari's classic treatise on creativity. It is published by Inventory Press.
Q & A followed by a book signing.
Event livestreamed on Instagram @artbookhwla.
Please RSVP for the event and pre-order a signed copy here.

"But isn't imagination also fantasy? And can't fantastic images also assume the form of sounds? Musicians speak of sonic images, sound objects. How does one invent a fish tale, an air-cooled engine, a new plastic? ... fantasy, invention, creativity think; imagination sees."

Never before translated into English, Bruno Munari's Fantasy, originally published in Italian in 1977, invites the reader to explore their own imagination, creativity and fantasy through a journey into Munari's mind and work. His theory of creativity, developed in conversation with the Reggio Emilia Approach (a self-guided approach to education) and the work of Jean Piaget (a Swiss developmental psychologist who proffered a theory termed "genetic epistemology") foregrounds the book's journey through Munari's design processes, both working for clients and teaching design principles to children. By turning both life and work into a classroom, Munari unlocks a path through imagination in order to access his, and in turn the reader's, deepest sense of play.

The facsimile reprint is accompanied by new contextual annotations by Munari scholar and design historian Jeffrey Schnapp. These microinterventions highlight the innovations that make this work as relevant today as when originally published.

Bruno Munari (1907–98) was an Italian artist, designer and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in Modernism, Futurism and Concrete art, as well as to nonvisual arts (literature, poetry) through his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning and creativity.

ARTBOOK AT HAUSER & WIRTH LOS ANGELES BOOKSTORE
Jeffrey Schnapp and Peter Lunenfeld launching Bruno Munari's 'Fantasy'
Saturday, March 29 at 3 PM
917 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: 213-988-7413
Click here to RSVP and pre-order a signed copy