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| Written by Eva D.Grimaldi | ||||
| Wednesday, 10 June 2009 00:00 | ||||
 LONDON - TATE MODERN 12 June – 20 September 2009 This exhibition will be the first large-scale showing of Futurism in Britain in thirty years. The movement set out to modernise Italian art and social attitudes and its influence spread across Europe and beyond, revolutionising the response to the dynamism of modern life. Its master of ceremonies was the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and this exhibition celebrates the centenary of his publication of The Founding and First Manifesto of Futurism in 1909. A core group of artists – Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini – pledged its enthusiastic adherence to Futurism and abandoned the art and culture from the past. The Futurists embraced a celebration of modern technology, speed, and city life and they often painted urban and industrial scenes. The fascination and experience of cars, trams and airplanes is frequently represented in their subject matter together with the use of bold and strident colours on the canvas.  Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913, cast 1972 Forme uniche della continuita nello spazio © Tate Bringing together works from the groundbreaking Futurist exhibition of 1912 that began at the Galerie Bernheim in Paris and traveled to the Sackville Gallery in London and onwards across Europe, this exhibition will reveal the original impact of that show.  Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, The Arrival circa 1913 Oil on canvas 762 x 635 mm Painting Presented by the artist's widow 1956 © Tate The effect of Futurism on the Parisian avant-gardes was profound, and this show will examine the nature of that exchange as Cubism and Futurism became inextricably linked. It will also show the impact of the movement in Britain and Russia as it found a response in Vorticism and Russian Futurism.  Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, Bursting Shell 1915 Oil on canvas 760 x 560 mm Painting Purchased 1983 ©Tate Futurism was an art movement launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. That moment saw the birth of the Futurists, a small group of radical Italian artists working just before the outbreak of World War 1.  Carlo Carra, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, 1911 Oil on Canvas 198,7 x 257 cm ©MoMA Among modernist movements, the Futurists rejected anything old and looked towards a new Italy. This was partly because the weight of past culture in Italy was felt as particularly oppressive. In his Manifesto, Marinetti asserted "we will free Italy from her innumerable museums which cover her like countless cemeteries."
Highlights of the exhibition will include: Umberto Boccioni's sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913; Carlo Carrà’s Funeral of the Anarchist, Galli 1911; and responses to the challenge represented by Futurism in works such as Delaunay's Eiffel Tower 1911; Jacob Epstein's Torso in Metal from the Rock Drill 1913-14 and Picasso’s Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc 1914 onto which he pasted the Futurist periodical, Lacerba. More information: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/futurism/default.shtm Bookmark us: 
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