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Futurism
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. The Futurists practiced in every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture and even gastronomy. -
Luigi Russolo
Click Here to learn moreRussolo's Art of Noise at the MART
The ingenious Futurist artist Luigi Russolo's Noisemakers, canvases, engravings and archive material. Luigi Russolo. Life and Works of a Futurist is produced by the MART and the Estorick Collection of London. Press Conference at 12.00 o'clock on 26 May in the MART in Rovereto. -
Carlo Carrà
Click Here to find out more The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli (Funerali dell’anarchico Galli) is a painting by Italian painter Carlo Carrà. It was finished in 1911, during the artist's futurist phase. It currently resides in New York City's Museum of Modern Art. The subject of the work is the funeral of Italian anarchist Angelo Galli, killed by police during a general strike in 1904. -
Umberto Boccioni
Click Here to learn more Visioni simultanee, 1912. Visioni simultanee, ca. 1912
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Giacomo Balla
Click Here to find out more Abstract Speed + Sound. It has been proposed that Abstract Speed + Sound was the central section of a narrative triptych suggesting the alteration of landscape by the passage of a car through the atmosphere. -
Mario Sironi
Click Here to learn more After service in World War I, Sironi's version of Futurism gave way to an art of massive, immobile forms. In paintings such as La Lampada of 1919 (Pinateca di Brera, Milan), mannequins substitute for figures, as in the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. Like many artists in the period following the war, Sironi looked to the art af the past for inspiration, and works such as Venere of 1921 -
Jules Schmalzigaug
Click Here to learn more Impressions in a Dance Hall, 1916. His time in Italy between 1912 and 1914 was the happiest and most active part of his life and art. In 1914 he took part on the international exhibition of futurists in Rome. His style developed towards the abstract -
Ardengo Soffici
Click Here to Learn more BÏF§ZF+18, 1915. BÏF§ZF+18 Simultaneità e Chimismi lirici (BÏF§ZF+18. Simultaneity and Lyrical Chemistry) is a poetry book and artist's book published in 1915 by the Italian futurist Ardengo Soffici. Despite its rarity, the book has become famous as one of the finest examples of futurist 'words-in-freedom', and has been described as 'absolutely the most important book that came out of Florentine Futurism'. -
Luigi De Giudici
Click Here to find out more La bella sconosciuta, 1916. This painting is currently in the musem of of Automobiles in Art. -
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Carlo Carrà
Click Her to learn moreThe Engineer's Lover, 1921. It portrays an enigmatic head of a maiden on a white table, flanked by a green panel with a triangle and a compasses (symbols of rationalism). The black background contributes to underline the timeless atmosphere of the scene. -
Ardengo Soffici
Click Here to learn more Harlequin, 1932. Harlequin or Arlecchino in Italian, Arlequin in French, and Arlequín in Spanish is the most popular of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell'arte and its descendant, the Harlequinade. -
Gino Severini
Click Here to Learn more Pan Pan Dance, 1960. The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them rather than hypocritically enjoying the modern world’s comforts while loudly denouncing the forces that made them possible. Fearing and attacking technology has become almost second nature to many people today; the Futurist manifestos show us an alternative philosophy -
Fortunato Depero
Click Here to find out more Depero's 1932 bottle design for Campari Soda is still in production. Many of his works are featured in the permanent collection of the Mart, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto
