Domenico (Ico) Parisi (1916-1996), son of an art teacher, was born in Sicily but lived most of his life in Como, North Italy.
Parisi defined himself as a Renaissance Artist who was interested in all forms of art. In a career spanning over 50 years he pursued architecture, design, painting, photography, installation & performance. Quite a different direction for the man who started out as a civil engineer.
It was in the 1930`s in Italy under Mussolini that Parisi was drawn to the country`s artistic revival. He joined Avant-Garde art movements and worked as a photographer for the Modernist Architect Giuseppe Terragni.
Following war service, Parisi married architect Luisa Aiani who had been a pupil of Gio Ponti. Parisi himself went on to graduate as an architect in 1950.
Together the husband & wife team set up a design company producing furniture, ceramics, glass & jewellery.
Parisi`s designs are characterised by organic curvaceous wooden & metal frames, as well as funky, modernist forms of the 50`s Atomic Age. Their designs reflected the pared-down modernism of the time but with a uniquely Italian taste.
In the 1970`s Ico Parisi published his first book on photography. Following this he worked on installations which included an exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in 1988.
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