Bruno Capacci (1906-1996). "circus Act". Exhibited At The Milan Triennale In 1957.

Wooden frame, brick patina (wear from use). Frame dimensions: 61 x 55 cm.
Gouache dimensions: 59 x 53 cm. Signed lower right. On the back, titled "Numero da circo", No. 19, Triennale di Milano, 1957.
Some ripples in the paper on the left side. Probably a wallpaper project.
Bruno Capacci, born in Venice in 1906, died in Brussels in 1996, is an Italian surrealist painter and draftsman. He spent his childhood in Florence. In 1930 he moved to Paris where he met the Belgian artist Suzanne Van Damme who would become his wife, then went to Brussels in 1940, and became close to the Parisian surrealists between 1947 and 1955, then the Belgian surrealists.
XI Triennale di Milano 1957
The exhibition brought together avant-garde and innovative objects and creations as well as a more focused field of investigation than that of the traditional generic exhibitions dedicated to the architectural panorama. The section dedicated to architecture, coordinated by Agnoldomenico Pica, thus involved exceptional personalities such as Alvar Aalto, Giulio Carlo Argan, Pietro Lingeri, Giovanni Michelucci, Luigi Moretti, Giuseppe Vaccaro and the historian of modern architecture Nikolaus Pevsner. With a participation of 19 countries, the international participation was particularly noted and supported by a panorama of sculptures from the last 50 years. Works by nineteenth-century masters such as Rodin, Renoir and Matisse were exhibited in Sempione Park alongside creations by contemporary sculptors such as Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso, Umberto Boccioni, Arturo Martini, Henry Moore and Alexander Calder.