Magdalo Mussio

Magdalo Mussio

Magdalo Mussio (1925 – 12 August 2006) was an Italian author, artist, animator and editor.

A native of the Tuscany town of Volterra, Magdalo Mussio served during the 1960s as the editor of several Italian cultural publications, including Marcatrè and was widely throughout his country's art gallery circuit. He was also the creative artist behind a number of animated films, including Reale dissoluto, I ragazzi di Theresi, Il potere del drago and Umanomeno and published several books detailing his life and work and uniting his own creative writings with what has been described as an archaeology of images in a sweetly melancholic mixture. Among his best-known titles are In practica, Praticabili per memoria concreta and Il fastidio delle parole.

Mussio died after a lengthy illness in the year of his 81st birthday.

Further reading

• Paola Ballesi, ed. (2016). Marginalia. Il pensiero figurato di Magdalo Mussio. Quodlibet. p. 22. ISBN 978-88-229-0013-5.
• Giovanna Cassese, ed. (2013). Accademie patrimoni di belle arti. Gangemi editore. ISBN 978-88-492-2671-3.
• Bruno Di Marino; Marco Meneguzzo; Andrea La Porta, eds. (2012). Lo sguardo espanso. Cinema d'artista italiano 1912-2012. Silvana Editoriale. ISBN 978-88-85345-10-2.
• Albert Mayr, ed. (2011). Pietro Grossi, avventure con suono e segno. ISBN 978-88-902631-2-5.
• Armando Ginesi, ed. (2006). Le Marche e il XX Secolo. Atlante degli artisti. Federico Motta Editore/Banca delle Marche.
• Carlo Pirovano, ed. (1993). La pittura in Italia. Il Novecento/2. Electa. ISBN 88-435-3982-5.
• Giorgio Di Genova (1991). Storia dell'arte italiana del '900. Vol. Generazione anni Venti. Bora. ISBN 88-85345-10-7.