Born in Mede Lomellina, the daughter of a butcher and orphaned at a young age, Regina (Regina Cassolo Bracchi, 1894-1974) was the first
woman of the
Italian vanguard to focus entirely on
sculpture, of which she reinterpreted the language in a daring and experimental manner, drawing on academic and naturalistic research and applying it to her original use of materials. Aluminum, iron wire, sandpaper, tin, and tinplate were the favored media in a constant compositional and expressive investigation which initially embraced the sphere of
Futurism (in 1934 she undersigned the Manifesto tecnico dell'aeroplastica futurista) and then that of the MAC, the "Movimento arte concreta" (1948), which Regina approached in 1951 through Bruno Munari.
