Anticipations: new exhibition at Palazzo Blu will be entirely dedicated to Futurism

Anticipations for the new exhibition to be staged at Palazzo Blu in Pisa from October 11, 2019 to February 9, 2020: it will be entirely dedicated to Futurism, as the title of the exhibition itself suggests.

Curated by Ada Masoero and organized by the Palazzo Blu Foundation together with MondoMostre under the patronage of the Region of Tuscany and the Municipality of Pisa, the exhibition will present more than one hundred works created by masters of Futurism, highlighting for the first time how the greatest among these artists knew how to remain faithful to the theoretical reflections enunciated in the manifestos, translating them into disruptive and innovative images. Works from museum venues or important private collections, including drawings, plans and art objects.

In addition to its quality, each work in the exhibition was therefore chosen for itsadherence to the movement’s founding theoretical points, and with regard to the artists, only the signatories of the posters examined were chosen. With only two exceptions: Rougena Zatkovà ’sPortrait of Marinetti and Tullio Crali ’s 1939 work entitled Before the Parachute Opens.

Opening will be the Divisionist beginnings of five future Futurists: Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, and Gino Severini.

Divided into sections devoted to manifestos, the exhibition will trace 30 years of Futurist art, starting in 1910, when the two pictorial manifestos signed by the young founding fathers came out. It will continue with Words in Freedom, whose principles were formulated by Marinetti as early as 1912, and with the new architectural models dictated in 1914 by Antonio Sant’Elia in the text L’Architettura futurista.

With Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe (1915) by Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero, the two artists wanted to spread the formal models of Futurism over the entire human experience. Another significant document was L’arte meccanica (1922) signed by Enrico Prampolini, Vinicio Paladini, Ivo Pannaggi, while Manifesto dell’Aeropittura (1931) was signed by Marinetti, Balla, Benedetta, Depero, Dottori, Fillia, Prampolini, Somenzi and Tato.

For info: www.palazzoblu.it
www.futurismopisa.it

Hours: Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Tickets: Full 12 euros, reduced 10 euros, children aged 6 to 17 6 euros.

Image: Giacomo Balla, Pessimism and Optimism (1923; oil on canvas, 115 x 176 cm; Rome, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art) © Giacomo Balla, by SIAE 2019

Anticipations: new exhibition at Palazzo Blu will be entirely dedicated to Futurism

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