Danilo (1925-1988) & Corrado (1936) Aroldi Biography
Danilo Aroldi (Casalmaggiore, Cremona, 1925- Milan, 1988). After leaving his hometown in 1936, he moved with his family to Milan where he attended the Liceo Carducci and the Brera Academy; here he met among his teachers Aldo Carpi, Carlo Carrà and Achille Funi and among his classmates Dario Fo, Amilcare Rambelli and Gianni Dova. In the two decades of the 1950s and 1960s, Milan became one of the liveliest European centers for graphics, advertising and design. Danilo Aroldi translates his artistic vocation into a new professionalism: in the early Sixties he founded the Danilo and Corrado Aroldi – Architecture and Industrial Design studio with his brother Corrado, signing some product design projects which are now included in the permanent collections of the MoMA in New York and of the Triennale di Milano, or selected for the Compasso d'Oro; among these we remember the Periscopio lamp, produced by Stilnovo in 1968, and the 76 kitchen, designed for Campi & Calegari. After having simultaneously cultivated a passion for drawing, understood both as an ideal tool to deepen direct knowledge of an object and to satisfy every possible curiosity about it, and as a form of artistic expression, at the beginning of the 1980s he returned to painting. Between 1983 and 1988 he created a corpus of around three hundred works, profoundly coherent and characterized by constant research. Corrado Aroldi His industrial design works were selected for the Compasso d'Oro award in 1979 and 1991 and presented in the major design exhibitions in the world (Lausanne, Kioto, Cologne, Ljubljana, Milan, Budapest, Madrid, Paris), are also exhibited at the Permanent Design Exhibition of the MOMA in New York and at the Italian Design Collection of the TRIENNALE in Milan. He has participated in several national and international juries for design competitions. Member of the ADI (Association for Industrial Design) Steering Committee from 1985 to 1988. Member of the EC Design Commission. Member of the UNI Commission (National Unification Body) for domestic furniture. He has participated in design conferences in Beirut, Paris, Lyon, Cologne, Madrid, Barcelona, Toronto, Montreal.
