Bruno Munari: Xerografia

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Scarce Bruno Munari book produced on the occasion of the XXXV Venice International Art Biennale, 1970. Focusing on Munari’s experiments with the Xerox 914 Machine, which began in 1963 and would continue throughout his entire career, the presentation brings a selection of works documented in his seminal book “Xerografia: Documentazione sull’uso creativo delle macchine Rank Xerox (Xerography: Documentation of the creative use of the machine Rank Xerox)”.

Published on the occasion of Bruno Munari Xerografia exhibition at Saint-Martin Bookshop, Brussels, from April 22 to June 13 2026. Includes a 4-page booklet (available in Italian, French, English, and Japanese; with text by Gabriella Zalapì).

“If we want to arrive at an art that belong to all (and not an art made for all, as a famous French critic recently wrote), it is necessary to find tools that facilitate the artistic operation and, at the same time, give everyone the methods and preparation to be able to operate.

Great Art, of bourgeois conception, hand-made by the Genius only for the richest, no longer makes sense in our age; Art for All is still this type of art at a lower price, it still carries the spirit of genius, leaving everyone else in their inferiority complex.

The technological possibilities of our age can allow anyone to work and produce something of aesthetic value, can allow anyone who has eliminated their inferiority complex in the face of art, to put their creativity, so long humiliated, into action.

One of the tasks of the visual operator will be to experiment, to seek out tools and pass them on to the next person, with all the ‘secrets of the trade’ that can facilitate the task of doing.

The Rank Xerox machines have the ability to help anyone manifest. Invented to reproduce images, today they can produce them. Of course, like all other means, they too have their limits, but if one thinks of the instrumental limits of the piano, for example, with which one cannot make a long note... yet it cannot be denied that the piano is an instrument capable of producing works of sonorous art. Therefore, as with other media, it is a matter of operating within certain limits and, of course, not expecting to make masterpieces immediately.”

–Bruno Munari 1969

Pages: 52 + 4
Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm
Format: Softcover
Language: English, Japanese
Year: 2026
Publisher: Christophe Daviet-Théry, Saint Martin Bookshop