INFERNO

« Italian Futurism, 1909–1944 : Reconstructing the Universe » / Guggenheim New York / Du 21 février au 1er septembre 2014.

Du 21 février au 1er septembre 2014, le Guggenheim New York propose une grande exposition autour du Futurisme italien. « Italian Futurism, 1909–1944 : Reconstructing the Universe » réunit plus de 80 artistes, architectes, designers photographes et écrivains qui auront contribué à la notoriété de ce mouvement pré-fasciste, dont les répercutions historiques et politiques furent exceptionnelles.

Avec 360 oeuvres de toutes les disciplines, l’exposition du Guggenheim est une première, qui examine pleinement, dans sa totalité et sa transversalité, l’ensemble du mouvement futuriste, depuis le premier manifeste de Marinetti jusqu’au sortir de la seconde guerre mondiale dans l’Italie de Mussolini, lui-même largement inspiré hélas par les thèses de Marinetti et le rêve futuriste, qu’il aura interprété à sa manière…

Jusqu’au 1er septembre 2014.

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From February 21 through September 1, 2014, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, the first comprehensive overview in the United States of one of Europe’s most important 20th-century avant-garde movements. Featuring over 360 works by more than 80 artists, architects, designers, photographers, and writers, this multidisciplinary exhibition examines the full historical breadth of Futurism, from its 1909 inception with the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s first Futurist manifesto through its demise at the end of World War II. The exhibition includes many rarely seen works, some of which have never traveled outside of Italy. It encompasses not only painting and sculpture, but also the advertising, architecture, ceramics, design, fashion, film, free-form poetry, photography, performance, publications, music, and theater of this dynamic and often contentious movement that championed modernity and insurgency.

The exhibition is organized by Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. An international advisory committee composed of eminent scholars from many disciplines provided expertise and guidance in the preparation of this thorough exploration of the Futurist movement, a major modernist expression that in many ways remains little known among American audiences.

Image : Tullio Crali, Before the Parachute Opens (Prima che si apra il paracadute), 1939. Oil on panel, 141 x 151 cm. Casa Cavazzini, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Udine, Italy. © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome. Photo: Claudio Marcon, Udine, Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia e Arte